Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

To photograph is to confer importance.

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Despite the illusion of giving understanding, what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic awareness and promotes emotional detachment.

Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology.

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