True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.

Real danger is nothing more than just living. Of course, living is merely the chaos of existence, but more than that it's a crazy mixed-up business of dismantling existence instant by instant to the point where the original chaos is restored, and taking strength from the uncertainty and the fear that chaos brings to re-create existence instant by instant. You won't find another job as dangerous as that. There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.

A man isn't tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.

The images which the [press] photographer has filtered from reality, whether particular events or the anguish of human reactions to them, already bear a stamp of authenticity which the photographer is powerless to alter by one jot or tittle; the meaning of the objects, by a process of purification, itself becomes the theme of the work.

For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other.

The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled.

There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.