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

Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that must happen because he is a human being. For a woman, aging is not only her destiny . . . it is also her vulnerability.

I write essays first because I have a passionate relationship to the subject and second because the subject is one that people are not talking about.

The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched.

The photographer both loots and preserves, denounces and consecrates.

Each generation has to reinvent spirituality.

Standing alone, photographs promise an understanding they cannot deliver. In the company of words, they take on meaning, but they slough off one meaning and take on another with alarming ease.