“I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.”

“No, it's not a 'corpse thing.' I feel I lack the emotional capacity to deal with those in mourning...”

“but when i write, i feel like the most important man in the world, because when i write, i give meaning to things. i create significance, and i create meanings, and as hard as that may for you to believe, that's really even more important in the long run than life and death.”

“No one could possibly understand my purest feelings but I couldn't care less; My deepest yearnings are nobody's goddamn business anyway”

“Take care, lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, will plunge you in deepest woe.”

“A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.”