To travel is to shop.

The felt unreliability of human experience brought about by the inhuman acceleration of historical change has led every sensitive modern mind to the recording of some kind of nausea, of intellectual vertigo.

Knowing a great deal about what is in the world art, catastrophe, the beauties of nature through photographic images, people are frequently disappointed, surprised, unmoved when the see the real thing. For photographic images tend to subtract feeling from something we experience at first hand and the feelings they do arouse are, largely, not those we have in real life. Often something disturbs us more in photographed form than it does when we actually experience it.

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it.

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

Writing is a mysterious activity.