When you are writing, you are - from society's point of view - only producing the first version which will then be processed and recycled.

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

I write - and talk - in order to find out what I think.

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

I didn't think of myself as importing, I thought it was more interesting to write about things people didn't know about than what they did. When I became aware that I was in fact "importing", I stopped doing it.

The photographer's intentions do not determine the meaning of a photograph, which will have its own career, blown by the whims and loyalties of the diverse communities that have use for it.

Sanity is a cozy lie.