Self-censorship, the most important and most successful form of censorship, is rampant. Debate is identified with dissent, which is in turn identified with disloyalty. There is a widespread feeling that, in this new, open-ended emergency, we may not be able to 'afford' our traditional freedoms.

I'm more cautious about what I write.

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.

Thinking, writing are ultimately questions of stamina.

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.