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

To read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the injustices and frustrations of this one. Reading was balm, amusement not incitement.

Sight is a promiscuous sense. The avid gaze always wants more.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Quotation is a method of appropriation which is invincible, I think. It's not a procedure which displeases me, contrary to recycling.

Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.