I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses.

There is a terrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things.

photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing.

Wherever people feel safe — they will be indifferent.

'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.

Salter is a writer who particularly rewards those for whom reading is an intense pleasure. He is among the very few North American writers all of whose work I want to read, whose as-yet-unpublished books I wait for impatiently.