I'll tell you what colonial experience is.

Most correspondents came from the former colonial powers – there were British, French, and a lot of Italians, because there were a lot of Italian communities there. And of course there were a lot of Russians.

I’m trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing.

Our job is like a baker’s work – his rolls are tasty as long as they’re fresh; after two days they’re stale; after a week, they’re covered with mould and fit only to be thrown out.

Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we’ll never achieve.

When man meets an obstacle he can’t destroy, he destroys himself.

When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can’t be answered.

Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general – a desire to preserve oneself.

The extent of one man’s guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

Pack the one bag. Unpack it, pack it, unpack it, pack it: passeport, ticket, book, taxi, airport, check-in, beer, announcement, stairs, airplane, fasten seat-belt, air born, flight, rocking, sun, stars, space, hips of strolling stewardesses, read, sleep, clouds, falling engine speed, descent, circling, touch down, earth, unfasten seat-belt, stairs, airport, immunization book, visa, customs, questions, taxi, streets, houses, people, hotel, key, room, stuffiness, thirst, otherness, foreignness, loneliness, fatigue, life.