What seems distinctively modern as a unit of thought, of art, of discourse is the fragment; and the quotation is one kind of fragment.

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

Photographers are always imposing

To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production.

All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.

Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin with, an art form at all. Like language, it is a medium in which works of art (among other things) are made.

I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.