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

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up

Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.

The question of the social uses of photography opens out into the very largest issues of the self, of the relationship to community, to reality.

The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more.

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.

the process of building a self and its works is always too slow. One is always in arrears to oneself.