I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy.

We are told we must choose - the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new?

I don't consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love.

It's hard not to be afraid. Be less afraid.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

The young-old polarization and the male-female polarization are perhaps the two leading stereotypes that imprison people.