The writers or artists I write about are not necessarily those I care most about (Shakespeare is still my favourite writer) but those whose work I feel has been neglected.

A good listener: a physical presence that is warm, alert, intelligent - more important than any words.

I write - and talk - in order to find out what I think.

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

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.

In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty & beauty. You get dwarfs.

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