I'm interested in the possibility of fiction which straddles narrative and essay.

I feel that I've had enough theoretical speculation to last me a lifetime.

In the greatest art, one is always aware of things that cannot be said. . .of the contradiction between expression and the presence of the inexpressible. Stylistic devices are also techniques of avoidance. The most potent elements of a work of art are, often, its silences.

As one passion begins to fail it is necessary to form another, for the whole art of going through life tolerably is to keep oneself eager about anything.

Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Each still photograph is a privileged moment turned into a slim object that one can keep and look at again.

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.