Courage is morally neutral.

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both.

Remember when you hear yourself saying one day that you don't have time anymore to read or listen to music or look at paintings or go to the movies or do whatever feeds your head now. Then you're getting old. That means they got you, after all.

To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability to be compassionate. It can also corrupt them. Once one has seen such images, one has started down the road of seeing more - and more. Images transfix. Images anesthetize.

Photographers are always imposing