... liberal intellectualstend to have a classical theory of politics, in which the state has a monopoly of power; hoping thatthose in positions of authority may prove to be enlightened men, wielding power justly, they are natural, if cautious, allies of the "establishment.

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

The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the forms of pleasure that art in a given time may offer.

I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.

What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer’s life seemed the most inclusive.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

To us, the difference between the #‎ photographer as an individual eye and the photographer as an objective recorder seems fundamental, the difference often regarded, mistakenly, as separating photography as art from #‎ photography as document. But both are logical extensions of what photography means: note-taking on, potentially, everything in the world, from every possible angle.