“What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.”
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.