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Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.
The white race is the cancer of human history.
Everything has changed and nothing is changed.
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.
To collect photographs is to collect the world.
Marriage is a sort of tacit hunting in couples.
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
A thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing.
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
Death is unbearable unless you can get beyond the I.
With more people, there are more voices to tune out.
Few ever see what is not already inside their heads.
Images are more real than anyone could have supposed.
The really important thing is not to reject anything.
The Western memory museum is now mostly a visual one.
Wherever people feel safe — they will be indifferent.
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love.
Thinking, writing are ultimately questions of stamina.
When comedy fails, seriousness begins to leak back in.
Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.
I write - and talk - in order to find out what I think.
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
I love to read the way people love to watch television.
Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.
Now the new things happening in France don't interest me.
...to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
The easiest thing in the world for me is to pay attention.
A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once.
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
What interests me is to understand the nature of the modern.
The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man.
The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions.
Sight is a promiscuous sense. The avid gaze always wants more.
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
What makes me feel strong? Being in love and work. I must work.
...what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.
Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
Translation is the circulatory system of the world's literatures
I belong rather to a more classical tradition of social analysis.
All my life I've been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.
The last sentence of a book is, of course, where you have to stop.