Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that must happen because he is a human being. For a woman, aging is not only her destiny . . . it is also her vulnerability.

Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.

I want to live as long as possible, just to see how stupid it gets.

By furnishing this already crowded world with a duplicate one of images, photography makes us feel that the world is more available than it really is.

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin with, an art form at all. Like language, it is a medium in which works of art (among other things) are made.

With more people, there are more voices to tune out.