All my life I've been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.

The photographer's intentions do not determine the meaning of a photograph, which will have its own career, blown by the whims and loyalties of the diverse communities that have use for it.

Writing is a mysterious activity.

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable.

Images are more real than anyone could have supposed.

Fatal illness has always been viewed as a test of moral character, but in the nineteenth century there is a great reluctance to let anybody flunk the test.

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.