Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive."

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

The photographic image. . . is a message without a code.

"To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive. . . and impoverished."

"What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself."