The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both.

That sort of reception - where everything is assimilated to the world of celebrity - makes me dream of becoming a more recalcitrant, harder to assimilate writer.

The really important thing is not to reject anything.

...what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.

If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.