My library is an archive of longings.

All photographs aspire to the condition of being memorable - that is, unforgettable.

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.

A good listener: a physical presence that is warm, alert, intelligent - more important than any words.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.

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