The familiar photographs that many people carry with them always obviously belong to the order of fetishes in the ordinary sense of the word.

Film is difficult to explain because it is easy to understand.

The person who has been photographed, not the total person, is dead, dead for having been seen.

I would say that the off-frame effect in photography results from a singular and definitive cutting-off which figures castration and is figured by the click of the shutter.

I had read once that dumb people didn't know they were dumb. They thought they were just as smart as anybody else. That was a very unsettling thought. What if I was really dumb and didn't know it?

To rise above the crowd, you must discipline yourself unceasingly to the strict demand and realities of your ambition.

Wolves are very resourceful. All they need to survive is for people not to shoot them.

Mum had a job fitting upholstery into cars, but, in the evenings, she worked as a seamstress.

It didn't make much difference what time of night it was, whenever [my father would] come in drunk, he'd say, "Get up and sing me some songs." We didn't want to sing but we sang.

If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we'd rather be alive and have the bad image.

STOP looking back!!!! When your past calls do NOT pick up!! it has nothing new to say.

A man is saved no faster than he gains knowledge

I think that at its best you just have to respect each arena for what they can do well.

Oh, the holiness of being the injured party.