I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

American energy. . . is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural dislocations which must be, for the most part, ferociously sublimated. This energy has mainly been sublimated into crude materialism

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.

Photographers are always imposing

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

The easiest thing in the world for me is to pay attention.

When you are writing, you are - from society's point of view - only producing the first version which will then be processed and recycled.