An important job of the critic is to savage what is mediocre or meretricious.
Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology.
Courage is morally neutral.
A good book is an education of the heart.
... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve.
...what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.