"A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world." [<i>Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Pr… - Susan Sontag

To photograph people is to violate them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed.

to take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

My love wants to incorporate her totally, to eat her. My love is selfish.