Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum.

Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.

Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.

photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing.

'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.

I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all

To photograph is to confer importance.