Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses.

The photographer's intentions do not determine the meaning of a photograph, which will have its own career, blown by the whims and loyalties of the diverse communities that have use for it.

Remember when you hear yourself saying one day that you don't have time anymore to read or listen to music or look at paintings or go to the movies or do whatever feeds your head now. Then you're getting old. That means they got you, after all.

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

I am profoundly uncertain how to write. I know what I love and what I like, because it's a direct passionate response. But when I write, I'm very uncertain whether it's good enough. That is, of course, the writer's agony.

Creativity needs to be taken care of. It's like a big baby that needs to be nourished.