You don't need everybody to agree with you, but you do need a few people. And by this point I have a fairly high degree of confidence in my judgment, in that I don't doubt my sanity; or, even if I do, I don't have to be reassured.

I think being interested is really what being civilized is about. I mean, you have to be conscious of everything.

Art is always subject to change in a moment by somebody who's strong enough to shed new light on it.

I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to trust me and never feel betrayed.

A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a photograph, may become an instrument of sufficiently lucid cogitation.

Love and fear, the two strongest emotions we have. It all starts with emotion.

The problem of making artists talk about their work is that when they're making their work the left-brain is shut off. So if you talk to an artist about it, you're talking to someone who wasn't there. It's hopeless.