the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life.

The writer must be four people: 1) The nut, the obsede 2) The moron 3) The stylist 4) The critic. 1 supplies the material; 2 lets it come out; 3 is taste; 4 is intelligence.

It is not the position, but the disposition.

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

I'm extremely interested in the Russian formalists and have been for many years. I'm more drawn to their writing, which is expressive and literary, than to writing which is extremely academic or jargon-ridden.

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.

The danger, when not too dangerous, fascinate.