Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras.

Each generation has to reinvent spirituality.

The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence.

... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve.

As one passion begins to fail it is necessary to form another, for the whole art of going through life tolerably is to keep oneself eager about anything.

The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's midst --reinforces the association of illness with the foreign with an exotic, often primitive place.

I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me.