The oligarchs think that the people are both dangerous and stupid. Their point is moot. But we do know that the oligarchs are a good deal more dangerous to the polity than the people at large.

Nothing is durable, I think anybody who thinks sex is durable is going to have a lot of grief.

Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.

If you are at the mercy of what they call print interviews and the mercy of people who write about you, they can always tell lies.

People in my situation get to read about themselves whether they want to or not. It's generally wrong. Or oversimplified - which is sometimes useful.

For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? To the designer of the camera? to the finger on the button? to the law of averages?

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.