God, living is enormous!

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

The way in which a certain kind of political idealism has been discredited and scorned makes the danger not that intellectuals keep on making fools of themselves, formulating political opinions when they might not be as informed as they might be, but that they retreat and leave politics to the professionals.

I am profoundly uncertain how to write. I know what I love and what I like, because it's a direct passionate response. But when I write, I'm very uncertain whether it's good enough. That is, of course, the writer's agony.

Art is not consciousness per se, but rather its antidote- evolved from within consciousness itself.

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty & beauty. You get dwarfs.