To the militant, identity is everything.

That even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled violence that is being done to our sense of reality, to our humanity.

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

Love is friendship on fire -- anonymous

Music is at once the most wonderful, the most alive of all the arts- it is the most abstract, the most perfect, the most pure- and the most sensual. I listen with my body and it is my body that aches in response to the passion and pathos embodied in this music.

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have.

People tend to become cynical about even the most appalling crisis if it seems to be dragging on, failing to come to term.