My main interest was finding boyfriends. I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in.

One of the things my career as an artist might say to young artists is: The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best. And unless you photograph what you love, you are not going to make good art.

When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.

As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the work you've taken before.

Sometimes I think the only memories I have are those that I’ve created around photographs of me as a child. Maybe I’m creating my own life. I distrust any memories I do have. They may be fictions, too.

These dog bones are just making art the way art should be made, without any overarching reference. Just for fun, if you can imagine that-art for fun.

There is something about this process, and about the whole 8 x 10 [camera] business, that takes it out of the arena of the snapshot, even though, of course, I'm always desperate for that feeling. I wanted those family pictures to look effortless. I wanted them to look like snapshots. And some of them did.