Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads – as an anthology of images. To collect photographs is to collect the world

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

All my life I've been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.