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

The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.

Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art

Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.

Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom.

I think part of the success which Structuralist or post-Structuralist thought in critical theory has had in literary studies in American universities is due to a theoretical vacuum.

One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.