Knowing a great deal about what is in the world art, catastrophe, the beauties of nature through photographic images, people are frequently disappointed, surprised, unmoved when the see the real thing. For photographic images tend to subtract feeling from something we experience at first hand and the feelings they do arouse are, largely, not those we have in real life. Often something disturbs us more in photographed form than it does when we actually experience it.

Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

You can always be quoted.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

I'm more cautious about what I write.

War tears, rends. War rips open, eviscerates. War scorches. War dismembers. War ruins.