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

Beauty makes us more like ourselves and more like each other.

I'm absolutely convinced that people cannot look and read at the same time. Not any more than you can kneel and jump at the same time. It's a completely different physiological setting.

Artists are expected to talk about their work but writers aren't expected to talk about their writing.

There's art that I would readily buy if I could afford it, and enjoy, but would never write about because it doesn't seem significant.

A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their own cooking in the kitchen and then deliver an empty plate with assurances that it's great.

Photography is the art of anticipation, not working with memories, but showing their formation. As such, it has relentlessly usurped imaginative and critical prerogatives of older, slower literature and handmade visual art.