It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel.

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

That's what a community is: taking for granted certain assumptions, not having to start from zero every time. This is no longer true.

It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel.

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

She felt herself needing more and more sleep. When she awoke in the morning, she thought of when she might lie down again - and when she would sleep. She started going to the movies.

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