Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.

A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.

Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

I feel inauthentic at a party. ... Going to a party is a 'low' activity - the authentic self is compromised, fragmented - one plays 'roles.' One isn't fully present, beyond role-playing. One doesn't (can't) tell the full truth, which means one is lying, even if one doesn't literally tell lies.