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

Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination.

The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority

When a captive lion steps out of his cage, he comes into a wider world than the lion who has known only the wilds. While he was in captivity, there were only two worlds for him - the world of the cage, and the world outside the cage. Now he is free. He roars. He attacks people. He eats them. Yet he is not satisfied, for there is no third world that is neither the world of the cage nor the world outside the cage.

Glory, as anyone knows, is bitter stuff.

Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.

It seems to me that before the photograph can exist as art it must, by its very nature choose whether it is to be a record or a testimony.