Doubt Tempers Belief With Sanity.

The Reason Why Bookstores Are Going Out Of Business In The States Is That People Just Can't Focus On Longer Narratives Now - Even Narrative Film Is In Crisis In Many Ways, Unless It's An Adventure Film.

You Know, One Of The Only Times I Ever Wrote About Art Was The Obituary Of Warhol That I Did For The Village Voice.

Warhol's Images Made Sense To Me, Although I Knew Nothing At The Time Of His Background In Commercial Art. To Be Honest, I Didn't Think About Him A Hell Of A Lot.

The Different Aspects Of My Activity, Whether It's Writing Criticism, Or Doing Visual Work That Incorporates Writing, Or Teaching, Or Curating, Is All Of A Single Cloth, And I Don't Make Any Separation In Terms Of Those Practices.

I Have Problems With A Lot Of Photography, Particularly Street Photography And Photojournalism - Objectifying The Other, Finding The Contempt And Exoticism That You Might Feel Within Yourself Or Toward Yourself And Projecting It Out To Others. There Can Be An Abusive Power To Photography, Too.