Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real.

In the greatest art, one is always aware of things that cannot be said. . .of the contradiction between expression and the presence of the inexpressible. Stylistic devices are also techniques of avoidance. The most potent elements of a work of art are, often, its silences.

She felt herself needing more and more sleep. When she awoke in the morning, she thought of when she might lie down again - and when she would sleep. She started going to the movies.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

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

The young-old polarization and the male-female polarization are perhaps the two leading stereotypes that imprison people.

Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy.