Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won’t come through.

'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.

The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster.

The question of the social uses of photography opens out into the very largest issues of the self, of the relationship to community, to reality.

In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty & beauty. You get dwarfs.

Intelligence is not necessarily a good thing, something to value or cultivate. It's more like a fifth wheel - necessary or desirable when things break down. When things go well, it's better to be stupid ... Stupidity is as much a value as intelligence.

Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.