As one passion begins to fail it is necessary to form another, for the whole art of going through life tolerably is to keep oneself eager about anything.

10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.

Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won’t come through.

Wherever people feel safe — they will be indifferent.

People don't become inured to what they are shown - if that's the right way to describe what happens - because of the quantity of images dumped on them. It is passivity that dulls feeling. The states described as apathy, moral or emotional anesthesia, are full of feelings; the feelings are rage and frustration.

I feel that I've had enough theoretical speculation to last me a lifetime.

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have.