There are some elements in life - above all, sexual pleasure - about which it isn't necessary to have a position.

Images anesthetize. An event known through photographs certainly becomes more real than it would have been if one had never seen the photographs ... But after repeated exposure to images it also becomes less real. ... 'concerned' photography has done at least as much to deaden conscience as to arouse it.

I'm not sure at all that literature should be studied on the university level. ... Why should people study books? Isn't it rather silly to study Pride and Prejudice. Either you get it or you don't.

But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures

whatever doesn't kill you leaves scars.

The writers or artists I write about are not necessarily those I care most about (Shakespeare is still my favourite writer) but those whose work I feel has been neglected.

To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.