I'm extremely interested in the Russian formalists and have been for many years. I'm more drawn to their writing, which is expressive and literary, than to writing which is extremely academic or jargon-ridden.

The two ideas are antithetical. Insofar as photography is (or should be) about the world, the photographer counts for little, but insofar as it is the instrument of intrepid, questioning subjectivity, the photographer is all.

It's almost as if this is the fundamental procedure in modern society: duplication and recycling.

the process of building a self and its works is always too slow. One is always in arrears to oneself.

Ultimately ideas come out of a temperament or a sensibility, they are a crystallization or a precipitation of temperament.

Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself.

The feminist movement has been important to me because it's made me feel less odd and also because it has made me understand some of the pressures on women which I was lucky enough to have escaped, perhaps because of my eccentricity or the oddness of my upbringing.