Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!

This is the beauty that emerges from self-confidence, class confidence. That says, I am not born to please. I am born to be pleased.

In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.

It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.

The Western memory museum is now mostly a visual one.

Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious.

...to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.