To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.

All photographs aspire to the condition of being memorable - that is, unforgettable.

A good book is an education of the heart.

Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.

When you see your 40-page essay turned into a "hot tip" in one paragraph in Newsweek, you get anxious about the way your writing has been used.

The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.