“Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.”

People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.

Travel & photographs

March 31, 2008

“Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.”

Religion

March 31, 2008

“Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds”

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn’t sex but death.

Disease as Metaphor

March 31, 2008

“An autobiography, alone of all books, may be more valuable in proportion to the amount of misrepresentations which it contains.”

There is no failure. Only feedback.