Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion!

Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.

Is there an antidote to the perennial seductiveness of war? And is this a question a woman is more likely to pose than a man? (Probably yes.)

Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us.