One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another’s ambitiousness.

The writers or artists I write about are not necessarily those I care most about (Shakespeare is still my favourite writer) but those whose work I feel has been neglected.

Creativity needs to be taken care of. It's like a big baby that needs to be nourished.

All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.

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.

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.