What makes me feel strong? Being in love and work. I must work.

Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.

The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more.

We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.

Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy.

My ignorance is not charming.

'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.