When comedy fails, seriousness begins to leak back in.

What makes me feel strong? Being in love and work. I must work.

The question of the social uses of photography opens out into the very largest issues of the self, of the relationship to community, to reality.

I can't say I know how to change the society, but I share the feeling that this society is full of technology which depersonalizes people, which seems to drain a sense of reality from our lives. It's full of a lot of other things too.

In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

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.

I'm not interested in giving aid and comfort to the neo­-Conservatives.