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

What interests me is to understand the nature of the modern.

Loeb has been doing wonderfully patient work, exploring the American conscience from the inside. I regard him as something of a national treasure.

Images anesthetize. An event known through photographs certainly becomes more real than it would have been if one had never seen the photographs ... But after repeated exposure to images it also becomes less real. ... 'concerned' photography has done at least as much to deaden conscience as to arouse it.

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

writers are makers, not just transmitters, of myths. Literature offers not only myths but counter-myths, just as life offers counter-experiences - experiences that confound what you thought you thought, or felt, or believed.

The young-old polarization and the male-female polarization are perhaps the two leading stereotypes that imprison people.