One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.

The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.

It is the action of bodies on bodies, not bodies on minds, which the crowd enjoys.

A personality is our way of being for others. We hope that others will meet us half way or more, gratify our needs, be our audience, soothe our fears.

But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures

...to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self (and others) are often ruthlessly sacrificed. The poet self is the real self, the other one is the carrier; and when the poet self dies, the person dies.

A thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing.