Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene -- in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the…

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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by...

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by...

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that...

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that...

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

What we need is to use what we have.

What we need is to use what we have.

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book....

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book....

Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness...

Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness...

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence...

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence...

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than...

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than...

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art...

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art...

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom...

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom...

Perhaps it is our perennial fate to be surprised by the simultaneity of events, by...

Perhaps it is our perennial fate to be surprised by the simultaneity of events, by...

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an...

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an...

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of...

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of...

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also...

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also...

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.

Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to...

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to...