Knowing a great deal about what is in the world art, catastrophe, the beauties of nature through photographic images, people are frequently disappointed, surprised, unmoved when the see the real thing. For photographic images tend to subtract feeling from something we experience at first hand and the feelings they do arouse are, largely, not those we have in real life. Often something disturbs us more in photographed form than it does when we actually experience it.

The white race is the cancer of human history.

She felt herself needing more and more sleep. When she awoke in the morning, she thought of when she might lie down again - and when she would sleep. She started going to the movies.

No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

Thinking, writing are ultimately questions of stamina.