What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as an event.

The zoo cannot but disappoint.

What do drawings mean to me? I really don't know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don't think happens with any other activity.

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.

If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.