Are we asserting the easy dominion of our civilization over all times and all places, as signs that we casually absorb as a form of loot?

Any familiarity with photographic history shows that manipulation is integral to photography.

Photography [can] be seen as a system of representation that you bring to bear on other systems.

Documentary is a little like horror movies, putting a face on fear and transforming threat into fantasy, into imagery. One can handle imagery by leaving it behind. (It is them, not us.)

Take the Money and Run? Can Political and Socio-Critical Art ‘Survive’?

Just going out on a foray to assemble a collection of street trophies about this or that running social sore can't be effective - and never was.

How useful are documentary photographs if there is no follow up, no way of knowing what happened next in the story?

If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.

Any defensiveness is a sign of failure. You can't move forward if you are defensive.

I write weird stories. I don't know why I like weirdness so much ... But when I write, I write weird. That's very strange. When I'm getting more and more serious, I'm getting more and more weird.

Is this love, baby, or is this just confusion?

We have no filter for music, but we feel it when what's being spoken and sung is telling a story and evidencing a character.

Try to make others happy, and don't despair over all the evil in the world. Instead of cursing the dark, let us each light one small lamp.

Anarchism is "stateless socialism."

Think of the 40 years of confrontation. What is it we gained?...The old style has exposed itself: it is fruitless.

I'm a city girl and I never really lived in the country, so I'm learning about that.

I frankly encountered more anti-Semitism in the northeast than I did in Oklahoma, but not much either place. Anti-Semitism is not part of my life.