A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.

We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.

The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body.

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.

Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much.

Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible.

Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization.

What I am, I don't know. I am the simulacrum of myself.

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real.

History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.

If high aspirations = high fear, overcoming high fear = achieving high aspirations.

I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good

If the only tool we use to analyse what's valuable is a price tag, then those things that don't have price tags begin to look like they have no value.

The eye identifies itself not with the body it belongs to but with the object of its attention.

I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them.

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.

I love to sing more than anything - more than acting, even.

As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.

Discipline enabled Heaven to be filled with light; discipline enabled the angels to be immaculate and holy.