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

I am profoundly uncertain how to write. I know what I love and what I like, because it's a direct passionate response. But when I write, I'm very uncertain whether it's good enough. That is, of course, the writer's agony.

By furnishing this already crowded world with a duplicate one of images, photography makes us feel that the world is more available than it really is.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.

The easiest thing in the world for me is to pay attention.

Sight is a promiscuous sense. The avid gaze always wants more.