Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation.

There is an ineffable but fatal difference in attitude between people behaving naturally and people behaving naturally for a camera.

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

I do have pleasure when I'm writing. I mean, I'm aware of pleasure. And sometimes I make myself laugh, with a joke or something; or I feel gleeful.

Artists are sometimes in a position to tell the truth, but they're positioned as a Cassandra. They're gifted with impeccable prophecy and the assurance of never being listened to.

There's a double standard between writers and readers. Readers can be unfaithful to writers anytime they like, but writers must never ever be unfaithful to the readers.

Your medium has to be alive to you, no matter what you do.