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 principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders.

Norman Mailer in his writings is ultimately more concerned with success than with danger; danger is only a means to success.

Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing.

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have.

The single most amazing phenomenon is the discrediting of idealism.

Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world.