Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.

This is the beauty that emerges from self-confidence, class confidence. That says, I am not born to please. I am born to be pleased.

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.

I want to live as long as possible, just to see how stupid it gets.

One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.

Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras.

The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's midst --reinforces the association of illness with the foreign with an exotic, often primitive place.