I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all

When comedy fails, seriousness begins to leak back in.

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes. Adept of the joys of watching, connoisseur of empathy, the flâneur finds the world 'picturesque.

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

My ignorance is not charming.