The only pertinent political question in relation to an identity [or its photograph] is not Is it really coherent? but What does it actually achieve?

The wholeness, coherence, identity, which we attribute to the depicted scene [in a photograph] is a projection, a refusal of an impoverished reality in favour of an imagined plenitude.

Looking is not indifferent. There can never be any question of 'just looking'.

Our conviction that we are free to choose what we make of a photograph hides the complicity to which we are recruited in the very act of looking.

We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort, ' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours.

...everyone goes home in the end.

One grey hair appeared on my headI plucked it out with my hand.It answered me: "You have prevailed against me alone -What will you do when my army comes after me?

I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise.

And I don't like to work. I only like working when I'm working.

I've known Al Gore since he was born. He has been the best little boy, he was a boring child, and he has never done anything wrong.

Let yourself be open and life will be easier.

I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.

I am what I am. A fighter.

I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.