Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it.

I have to come out of the closet of the third person and speak in a more direct way.

Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing.

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.

My skull is crammed with quotations.

'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.