To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

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Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular...

Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular...

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...

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

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...

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be...

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be...

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

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...

To photograph is to confer importance.

To photograph is to confer importance.

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

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...

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to...

Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to...

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro....

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro....

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.

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to...

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to...

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite...

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite...

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every...

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every...

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.