Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

The two ideas are antithetical. Insofar as photography is (or should be) about the world, the photographer counts for little, but insofar as it is the instrument of intrepid, questioning subjectivity, the photographer is all.

Wherever people feel safe — they will be indifferent.

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's midst --reinforces the association of illness with the foreign with an exotic, often primitive place.

The only story that seems worth writing is a cry, a shot, a scream. A story should break the reader's heart.