It's not 'natural' to speak well, eloquently, in an interesting, articulate way. People living in groups, families, communes say little - have few verbal means. Eloquence - thinking in words - is a byproduct of solitude, deracination, a heightened painful individuality. In groups, it's more natural to sing, to dance, to pray: given, rather than invented (individual) speech.

No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.

It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.

When comedy fails, seriousness begins to leak back in.

How boring just to be a body.

I feel that I've had enough theoretical speculation to last me a lifetime.

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