Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.

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

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

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

All publicity works upon anxiety.

A man's presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you. By contrast, a woman's presence... defines what can and cannot be done to her.

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