Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.

One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world. That means trying to understand, take in, connect with, what wickedness human beings are capable of; and not be corrupted - made cynical, superficial - by this understanding.

Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads – as an anthology of images. To collect photographs is to collect the world

Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art