I can't say I know how to change the society, but I share the feeling that this society is full of technology which depersonalizes people, which seems to drain a sense of reality from our lives. It's full of a lot of other things too.

Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art

Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.

Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire

Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

To read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the injustices and frustrations of this one. Reading was balm, amusement not incitement.