Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.

Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.

Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.

History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past

Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.

Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.

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