New media is like a megaphone. It amplifies your ability to reach more people.
There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.
Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.
Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.
It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.
Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.
Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.
I always say I make pictures rather than take pictures.
Beauty is not the purpose of creation, it is its reward. Its appearance, often late in the day, is no more than an indication that the disrupted equilibrium between man and nature has once again been restored by art. Submitted to this test, what remains of contemporary works of art?
The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting
The end of the ridge and the end of the world. . . then nothing but that clear, empty air. There was nowhere else to climb. I was standing on the top of the world.