America was founded on a genocide, on the unquestioned assumption of the right of white Europeans to exterminate a resident, technologically backward, colored population in order to take over the continent.

A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once.

Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail.

To travel is to shop.

Experiences aren't pornographic; only images and representations - structures of the imagination - are.

We live in a world of copies and we're fascinated when we encounter the originals (in a museum, for instance).

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.