I'm a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America.

We are often in two places at once. In fact we are usually in at least two places and occasionally the contrast is evident....Here, most often, is nothing more than the best perspective to contemplate there.

...the questions a photographer raises may be more profound than the answers the medium permits.

The power of large corporations is still a scourge on the earth, but at least the arguments supporting them are undermined now.

While a lot of people want to join the left to react against the mainstream or right, I in many ways react against the left - not a lot of its fundamental commitments, but its often dismal tone, righteousness, defeatism, etc.

We have only the language for fun and miserable, and maybe we need language for deep and shallow, meaningful and meaningless.

...[Cabeza de Vaca] ceased to be lost not by returning but by turning into something else.