The only transformation that interests me is a total transformation - however minute

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

I feel inauthentic at a party. ... Going to a party is a 'low' activity - the authentic self is compromised, fragmented - one plays 'roles.' One isn't fully present, beyond role-playing. One doesn't (can't) tell the full truth, which means one is lying, even if one doesn't literally tell lies.

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

A personality is our way of being for others. We hope that others will meet us half way or more, gratify our needs, be our audience, soothe our fears.

Standing alone, photographs promise an understanding they cannot deliver. In the company of words, they take on meaning, but they slough off one meaning and take on another with alarming ease.