Like the effects of industrial pollution and the new system of global financial markets, the AIDS crisis is evidence of a world in which nothing important is regional, local, limited; in which everything that can circulate does, and every problem is, or is destined to become, worldwide.

Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead.

Communism is fascism with a human face.

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.

One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.

Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view.

People tend to become cynical about even the most appalling crisis if it seems to be dragging on, failing to come to term.