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.

To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability to be compassionate. It can also corrupt them. Once one has seen such images, one has started down the road of seeing more - and more. Images transfix. Images anesthetize.

It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.

... the place we assign to pornography depends on the goals we set for our own consciousness, our own experience.

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.

I have to come out of the closet of the third person and speak in a more direct way.

One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.