[William] Eggleston's photographs look like they were taken by a Martian who lost the ticket for his flight home and ended up working at a gun shop in a small town near Memphis. On the weekend he searches for the ticket - it must be somewhere - with a haphazard thoroughness that confounds established methods of investigation.
Geoff DyerI would hope that nothing that I write would ever seem earnest because I subscribe absolutely to Franz Nietzsche's claim when he says, "Ah, earnestness, the sure sign of a slow mind." Earnest people are always a bit on the thick side in my experience.
Geoff DyerForeign governments are going to be poring through all these Donald Trump tweets looking for - to try and discern what it means for foreign policy.
Geoff DyerAll the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge.
Geoff Dyer