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

In the United States it's not important which religion you adhere to, as long as you have one.

Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads – as an anthology of images. To collect photographs is to collect the world

Wherever people feel safe — they will be indifferent.

I'm interested in the possibility of fiction which straddles narrative and essay.

Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification. I live my life but I don't live in it. The hoarding instinct in human relations.

Death is unbearable unless you can get beyond the I.