I write essays first because I have a passionate relationship to the subject and second because the subject is one that people are not talking about.

When Cartier-Bresson goes to China, he shows that there are people in China, and that they are Chinese.

Death is unbearable unless you can get beyond the I.

Love is friendship on fire -- anonymous

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds.

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

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.