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.

In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.

I think part of the success which Structuralist or post-Structuralist thought in critical theory has had in literary studies in American universities is due to a theoretical vacuum.

A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness.

Marriage is a sort of tacit hunting in couples.

The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.