Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described.

Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire

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.

Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail.

The public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded.

It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.

Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood.