The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.

The danger, when not too dangerous, fascinate.

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

Sight is a promiscuous sense. The avid gaze always wants more.

Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

Photographers are always imposing