A good book is an education of the heart.

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

The question of the social uses of photography opens out into the very largest issues of the self, of the relationship to community, to reality.

...to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.

Chris Marker has a brilliant mind and heart and appetite for life, and it's a privilege to travel with him to whatever he chooses to remember and to evoke. He is one of cinema's all time greats - the most important reflective or non-narrative filmmaker after Dziga Vertov.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Salter is a writer who particularly rewards those for whom reading is an intense pleasure. He is among the very few North American writers all of whose work I want to read, whose as-yet-unpublished books I wait for impatiently.