Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not.

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

Most of my reading is rereading.

Sight is a promiscuous sense. The avid gaze always wants more.

The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references.

A way of certifying experience, taking photographs is also a way of refusing it - by limiting experience to a search for the photogenic, by converting experience into an image, a souvenir. Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

It's beginnings that are hard. I always begin with a great sense of dread and trepidation. Nietzsche says that the decision to start writing is like leaping into a cold lake.