Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone it has to be itself.

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.