It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.

I write in spurts. I write when I have to because the pressure builds up and I feel enough confidence that something has matured in my head and I can write it down. But once something is really under way, I don't want to do anything else. I don't go out, much of the time I forget to eat, I sleep very little. It's a very undisciplined way of working and makes me not very prolific. But I'm too interested in many other things.

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

Perversity is the muse of modern literature.

All possibility of understanding is rooted in the ability to say no.

To us, the difference between the #‎ photographer as an individual eye and the photographer as an objective recorder seems fundamental, the difference often regarded, mistakenly, as separating photography as art from #‎ photography as document. But both are logical extensions of what photography means: note-taking on, potentially, everything in the world, from every possible angle.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.