I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.

The wisdom of literature is quite antithetical to having opinions. 'Nothing is my last word about anything,' said Henry James. Furnishing opinions, even correct opinions - whenever asked - cheapens what novelists and poets do best, which is to sponsor reflectiveness, to pursue complexity. Information will never replace illumination.

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

Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Each still photograph is a privileged moment turned into a slim object that one can keep and look at again.

Rules of taste enforce structures of power.

By furnishing this already crowded world with a duplicate one of images, photography makes us feel that the world is more available than it really is.

You can always be quoted.