People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad.

I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.

The wisdom of literature is quite antithetical to having opinions. 'Nothing is my last word about anything,' said Henry James. Furnishing opinions, even correct opinions - whenever asked - cheapens what novelists and poets do best, which is to sponsor reflectiveness, to pursue complexity. Information will never replace illumination.

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

...to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.

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

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.