Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.
The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
To photograph is to confer importance.
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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.