I've Always Been Very Tied To Language.

The Place Of The Arts In The Classroom Is Essential In Encouraging Invention, Ambition, And An Understanding Of The Importance And Pleasures Of Living An Examined Life.

If Most American Cities Are About The Consumption Of Culture, Los Angeles And New York Are About The Production Of Culture - Not Only National Culture But Global Culture.

I Think That The Exactitude Of The Photograph Has A Sort Of Compelling Nature Based In Its Power To Duplicate Life. But To Me The Real Power Of Photography Is Based In Death: The Fact That Somehow It Can Enliven That Which Is Not There In A Kind Of Stultifying Frightened Way, Because It Seems To Me That Part Of One's Life Is Made Up Of A Constant Confrontation With One's Own Death.

Do You Know Why Language Manifests Itself The Way It Does In My Work? It's Because I Understand Short Attention Spans.

All The Gossip And Craziness Becomes A Kind Of Sustained Narrative Which, In Turn, Can Become History. It's Scary.