Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a sense of the past.

That even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled violence that is being done to our sense of reality, to our humanity.

The question of the social uses of photography opens out into the very largest issues of the self, of the relationship to community, to reality.

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism

Fear binds people together. And fear disperses them. Courage inspires communities: the courage of an example - for courage is as contagious as fear. But courage, certain kinds of courage, can also isolate the brave.

The writer must be four people: 1) The nut, the obsede 2) The moron 3) The stylist 4) The critic. 1 supplies the material; 2 lets it come out; 3 is taste; 4 is intelligence.

It is not the position, but the disposition.