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.

Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.

If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well.

Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.

To collect photographs is to collect the world.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2.