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

If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well.

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

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism

Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.

All photographs aspire to the condition of being memorable - that is, unforgettable.

We fret about words, we writers. Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. And the more portentous, more general the word, the more they can also resemble rooms or tunnels. They can expand, or cave in. They can come to be filled with a bad smell. They will often remind us of other rooms, where we'd rather dwell or where we think we are already living. They can be spaces we lose the art or the wisdom of inhabiting. And eventually those volumes of mental intention we no longer know how to inhabit will be abandoned, boarded up, closed down.