We live in a world of copies and we're fascinated when we encounter the originals (in a museum, for instance).

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

Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing.

No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.

... the place we assign to pornography depends on the goals we set for our own consciousness, our own experience.

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world. That means trying to understand, take in, connect with, what wickedness human beings are capable of; and not be corrupted - made cynical, superficial - by this understanding.

In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.