People tend to become cynical about even the most appalling crisis if it seems to be dragging on, failing to come to term.

To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like power.

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

It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel.

I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.

What interests me is to understand the nature of the modern.

Literature usually begets literature.