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.

To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

Thinking, writing are ultimately questions of stamina.

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty & beauty. You get dwarfs.