I Write Essays First Because

Time Eventually Positions Most Photographs, Even The Most Amateurish, At The Level Of Art.

Most Men Experience Getting Older With Regret, Apprehension. But Most Women Experience It Even More Painfully: With Shame. Aging Is A Man's Destiny, Something That Must Happen Because He Is A Human Being. For A Woman, Aging Is Not Only Her Destiny . . . It Is Also Her Vulnerability.

An Important Job Of The Critic Is To Savage What Is Mediocre Or Meretricious.

I'm Extremely Interested In The Russian Formalists And Have Been For Many Years. I'm More Drawn To Their Writing, Which Is Expressive And Literary, Than To Writing Which Is Extremely Academic Or Jargon-ridden.

Reality Has Come To Seem More And More Like What We Are Shown By Cameras.