My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.

One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith.

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

Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.

A man never forgets his body the way a woman does, because a man is pushing his body, a part of his body, forward, to make the act of love happen. He brings the jut of his body into the act of love, then takes it back, when it has had its way.

Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage.

The photographer's intentions do not determine the meaning of a photograph, which will have its own career, blown by the whims and loyalties of the diverse communities that have use for it.