Most of my reading is rereading.

Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it.

When you see your 40-page essay turned into a "hot tip" in one paragraph in Newsweek, you get anxious about the way your writing has been used.

I am profoundly uncertain how to write. I know what I love and what I like, because it's a direct passionate response. But when I write, I'm very uncertain whether it's good enough. That is, of course, the writer's agony.

Everything was simple, physical, painful, exalting. The world consisted of the four elements - land and water, firepower and distancing air.

Each generation has to reinvent spirituality.

The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man.