You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write.

We are told we must choose - the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new?

Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology.

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

To us, the difference between the #‎ photographer as an individual eye and the photographer as an objective recorder seems fundamental, the difference often regarded, mistakenly, as separating photography as art from #‎ photography as document. But both are logical extensions of what photography means: note-taking on, potentially, everything in the world, from every possible angle.

Any sensibility which can be crammed into the mold of a system, or handled with the rough tools of proof, is no longer sensibility at all. It has hardened into an idea.

Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation.