Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

During long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanity’s entire mode of existence. The manner in which human sense perception is organized, the medium in which it is accomplished, is determined not only by nature but by historical circumstances as well

The illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph.

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.

Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them.

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.