When Cartier-Bresson goes to China, he shows that there are people in China, and that they are Chinese.

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.

A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2.

Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology.

The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more.

There is a terrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things.

Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.