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.

The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man.

The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions.

When comedy fails, seriousness begins to leak back in.

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

As one passion begins to fail it is necessary to form another, for the whole art of going through life tolerably is to keep oneself eager about anything.

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.