Images are more real than anyone could have supposed.

The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more.

I have to come out of the closet of the third person and speak in a more direct way.

Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others.

the process of building a self and its works is always too slow. One is always in arrears to oneself.

Courage is morally neutral.

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.