The Public Voice In The

[o]ne Person's 'barbarian' Is Another Person's 'just Doing What Everybody Else Is Doing.

Writing Is A Mysterious Activity.

The Quality Of American Life Is An Insult To The Possibilities Of Human Growth... The Pollution Of American Space, With Gadgetry And Cars And Tv And Box Architecture, Brutalizes The Senses, Making Gray Neurotics Of Most Of Us, And Perverse Spiritual Athletes And Strident Self-transcenders Of The Best Of Us.

Growing Older Is Mainly An Ordeal Of The Imagination-a Moral Disease, A Social Pathology.

In America, The Photographer Is Not Simply The Person Who Records The Past, But The One Who Invents It.