“Love affairs, in their beginnings, are all about the present. But there is a point in each--an event, an exchange, some other unseen trigger--which forces the past and the future back into focus.”

“It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down....”

“I am beginning to feel at home in the past and a visitor to this strange and blanched experience we agree to call the present”

“While I wasn't certain how I felt about spiritualists, I was certain enough about the type of people who were drawn to them. Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.”

“Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.”

“‎"A noise, and the past was chased away, dispersed into the shadows like smoke by the brighter, louder present.”

“Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.”