God, living is enormous!

To photograph is to confer importance.

Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.

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.

Intelligence is not necessarily a good thing, something to value or cultivate. It's more like a fifth wheel - necessary or desirable when things break down. When things go well, it's better to be stupid ... Stupidity is as much a value as intelligence.

Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it.

I write - and talk - in order to find out what I think.