Being called a 'bad citizen' is a compliment to a novelist, at least to my mind. That's exactly what we ought to do.

Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else.

Look at those numbers running. Money makes time. It used to be the other way around. Clock time accelerated the rise of capitalism. People stopped thinking about eternity. They began to concentrate on hours, measurable hours,man-hours, using labor more efficiently.

I was never either pro-culture or counter-culture. I was in a kind of middle state.

A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the smallest event. This is what technology does. It peels back the shadows and redeems the dazed and rumbling past. It makes reality come true.

I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.

Something is always happening, even on the quietest days and deep into the night, if you stand a while and look.