A good book is an education of the heart.

Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera's eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes.

Loeb has been doing wonderfully patient work, exploring the American conscience from the inside. I regard him as something of a national treasure.

Sight is a promiscuous sense. The avid gaze always wants more.

Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.

His view of time, and of change, has become that of most elderly people: he hates change, since for him - for his body - any change is for the worse. And if there is to be change, then he wants it to happen quickly, so it does not use up too much of the time remaining to him.