What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

Along with people who pretty themselves for the camera, the unattractive and the disaffected have been assigned their beauty.

There is an understandable vindictiveness in people who come from Communist countries. They want to keep telling us that we were fools to think that we could make radical changes in our society. Though I understand their dismay, respect their suffering and don't understand the gullibility of some people who don't take in how repressive these societies are, I still think it's important to keep people of all kinds as active in civic matters as possible.

... 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.

I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.

Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.

It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making.