Being in Love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person. - Susan Sontag

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes. It is equivalent to a sense of abusing the present.

Recently, photography has become almost as widely practiced an amusement as sex and dancing – which means that, like every mass art form, photography is not practiced by most people as art. It is mainly a social rite, a defense against anxiety, and a tool of power.

I’ve become passive. I don’t invent, I don’t yearn. I manage, I cope.