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.

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.

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.

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

It's my duty to sell the ideas. But there's always a question when it comes to beauty.

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