I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty, according to the surrealist preferences which rule photographic taste.

That's what a community is: taking for granted certain assumptions, not having to start from zero every time. This is no longer true.

My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.

To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production.

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