Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.

In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

Our very sense of situation is now articulated by the camera's interventions. The omnipresence of cameras persuasively suggests that time consists of interesting events, events worth photographing. This, in turn, makes it easy to feel that any event, once underway, and whatever its moral character, should be allowed to complete itself - so that something else can be brought into the world, the photograph.

The really important thing is not to reject anything.

A lot of what I've written in criticism of my lust for virtue - my discovery that I've committed idolatry, making of the good an idol - is open to the charge of being still caught within the dialectic of idolatry. I've made a moral criticism of my moral consciousness. Meta-idolatry.

There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work.