I hurt someone's feelings once.

Sometimes if you have financial restraints, it’s a benefit. It forces you to come up with a more creative way.

The talent is in the choices.

If you're an actor, always be true to your character. If you are not an actor, have character and always be true to yourself.

When it comes to everybody else's thing and their lane and their timing, I'm never doing anything intentional to, like, come after somebody. That will always be my biggest mistake or anybody's biggest mistake if that's their intention.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn't mean what you have isn't beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have - no one is ever 100 per cent like, 'Yes, I'm the bomb dot com - from head to toe!'

Despite the illusion of giving understanding, what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic awareness and promotes emotional detachment.

Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power are always an index of how much is not understood about a disease.

The ideal or the dream would be to arrive at a language that heals as much as it separates.

War has been the norm and peace the exception

...what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.

Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!

Writing is a mysterious activity.

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or by duplication

To the militant, identity is everything.

As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To acknowledge the existence of the incorrigible.

A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of spirit over matter.

One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another’s ambitiousness.

There is nothing wrong with standing back and thinking. To paraphrase several sages: 'Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

Try not to live in a linguistic slum.

Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead.

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.

My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am.