What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer’s life seemed the most inclusive. - Susan Sontag

Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything in your own room, you can hear the sounds of that other room inside your head.

To make peace is to forget. To reconcile, it is necessary that memory be
faulty and limited.

What is odd is not that so many of the iconic news photos of the past, including some of the best-remembered pictures from the Second World War, appear to have been staged. It is that we are surprised to learn they were staged and always disappointed.