The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.

I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.

Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? “She drove me to my practice at four in the morning,” etc. Writing is not figure skating or skiing. Your mother will not make you a writer. My advice to any young person who wants to write is: leave home.

I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I'd touched bottom.

Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine.

The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.