I feel that I've had enough theoretical speculation to last me a lifetime.

Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.

I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.

...to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.

One task of literature is to formulate questions and construct counterstatements to the reigning pieties. And even when art is not oppositional, the arts gravitate toward contrariness. Literature is dialogue: responsiveness. Literature might be described as the history of human responsiveness to what is alive and what is moribund as cultures evolve and interact with one another.

I have been told that I am a "natural" feminist, someone who was born a feminist. In fact I was quite blind to what the problem was: I couldn't understand why anyone would hesitate to do what they wanted to do just because they were told that women didn't do such things.