The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . .

Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Cameras began duplicating the world at that moment when the human landscape started to undergo a vertiginous rate of change: while an untold number of forms of biological and social life are being destroyed in a brief span of time, a device is available to record what is disappearing.

Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.