Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce.

All my life I've been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.

The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.

Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.

The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations.

I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me.

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.