All photographs aspire to the condition of being memorable - that is, unforgettable.

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.

When you see your 40-page essay turned into a "hot tip" in one paragraph in Newsweek, you get anxious about the way your writing has been used.

Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.

You can include essay elements in fiction; this is a very nineteenth century practice.

It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.

Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.