To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production.

A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once.

I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid. I don't consider it a moral virtue.

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.

Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras.

My skull is crammed with quotations.

The only ideals allowed are healthy ones - those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing.