When you see your 40-page essay turned into a "hot tip" in one paragraph in Newsweek, you get anxious about the way your writing has been used.

People tend to become cynical about even the most appalling crisis if it seems to be dragging on, failing to come to term.

whatever doesn't kill you leaves scars.

Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Each still photograph is a privileged moment turned into a slim object that one can keep and look at again.

Norman Mailer in his writings is ultimately more concerned with success than with danger; danger is only a means to success.

The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.

Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it.