Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.

The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall.

With more people, there are more voices to tune out.

The writers or artists I write about are not necessarily those I care most about (Shakespeare is still my favourite writer) but those whose work I feel has been neglected.

... the place we assign to pornography depends on the goals we set for our own consciousness, our own experience.

The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV and box architecture, brutalizes the senses, making gray neurotics of most of us, and perverse spiritual athletes and strident self-transcenders of the best of us.

In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty & beauty. You get dwarfs.