Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.

Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.

Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.

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

The most potent elements in a work of art are, often, its silences.

Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!

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.