Still, there's that faint glimmer of hope we feel when we sense, in other people, the same kind of attentiveness to life that we take comfort in. Why else would anyone watch Haneke films or read Sebald? The material is grim, but it's redeemed by the quality of the attention.

What's interesting about Twitter is the unmediatedness of it, the directness of it. I'm on a train somewhere in New York and I send out a tweet. Somebody sitting at dinner in Bombay checks their phone and they see it.

Love perhaps includes the promise that when the mob comes for you I'll go against the mob.

The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening.

The creative part of oneself finds its way out. In this case, I got interested particularly in the medium of Twitter and looked for ways to use it creatively.

I couldn't remember what life was like before I started walking.

I often say I've spent more time with photography than I have with literature just in terms of hours.