Sanity is a cozy lie.

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.

Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.

Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.

Passion paralyzes good taste.

Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.