The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV and box architecture, brutalizes the senses, making gray neurotics of most of us, and perverse spiritual athletes and strident self-transcenders of the best of us.

Remember when you hear yourself saying one day that you don't have time anymore to read or listen to music or look at paintings or go to the movies or do whatever feeds your head now. Then you're getting old. That means they got you, after all.

Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage.

To photograph is to confer importance.

The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions.

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

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