As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.

If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded.

Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed.

libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of travelling to distant lands

Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.