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.

Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world.

You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write.

Can I love someone...and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.

As industrialization provided social uses for the operations of the photographer, so the reaction against these uses reinforced the self-consciousness of photography-as-art.

I feel inauthentic at a party. ... Going to a party is a 'low' activity - the authentic self is compromised, fragmented - one plays 'roles.' One isn't fully present, beyond role-playing. One doesn't (can't) tell the full truth, which means one is lying, even if one doesn't literally tell lies.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.