Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to find out what everyone else takes for granted.

Though as he'd say, what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.

The act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being looked at than how.

Our biggest technology that we ever, ever invented was articulated language with built-out grammar. It is that that allows us to imagine things far in the future and things way back in the past.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self. She is living selflessly, she finds a hole in the stone wall and on the other side of the wall, a voice. The voice comes through darkness and has no face. This voice becomes her mirror.