The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more.

The danger, when not too dangerous, fascinate.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. Nothing is more decisive. There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion - and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2.

There are more and more taboos about calling something, anything, ugly.

I don't consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love.