I didn't think of myself as importing, I thought it was more interesting to write about things people didn't know about than what they did. When I became aware that I was in fact "importing", I stopped doing it.

Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.

The photographer's intentions do not determine the meaning of a photograph, which will have its own career, blown by the whims and loyalties of the diverse communities that have use for it.

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

If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well.

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

whatever doesn't kill you leaves scars.