The traditional metaphor for a spiritual investigation is that of the voyage or the journey. From this image I must dissociate myself. I do not consider myself a voyager, I have preferred to stand still.

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

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.

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

Mad people = People who stand alone and burn. I'm attracted to them because they give me permission to do the same.