So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.

We live in a world of copies and we're fascinated when we encounter the originals (in a museum, for instance).

The only transformation that interests me is a total transformation - however minute

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

Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.

Along with people who pretty themselves for the camera, the unattractive and the disaffected have been assigned their beauty.

Persons who merely have-a-life customarily move in a dense fluid. That's how they're able to conduct their lives at all. Their living depends on not seeing.