Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.

Passion paralyzes good taste.

writers are makers, not just transmitters, of myths. Literature offers not only myths but counter-myths, just as life offers counter-experiences - experiences that confound what you thought you thought, or felt, or believed.

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

... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve.

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

Sanity is a cozy lie.