Etymologically, 'patient' means sufferer. - Susan Sontag

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.

You have to create your own space which has a lot of silence in it and a lot of books.

Two kinds of writers. Those who think this life is all there is, and want to describe everything: the fall, the battle, the accouchement, the horse-race. That is, Tolstoy. And those who think this life is a kind of testing-ground (for what we don’t know — to see how much pleasure + pain we can bear or what pleasure + pain are?) and want to describe only the essentials. That is, Dostoyevsky. The two alternatives. How can one write like T. after D.? The task is to be as good as D. — as serious spiritually, + then go on from there.