The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Writing is a mysterious activity.

Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be protected from people.

You can include essay elements in fiction; this is a very nineteenth century practice.

... the place we assign to pornography depends on the goals we set for our own consciousness, our own experience.

To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production.

Some of the exuberance of my essay-writing has gone because I'm worried about the uses they could serve.