Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its "victims."

The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's midst --reinforces the association of illness with the foreign: with an exotic, often primitive place.

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

Life is not about significant details, illuminated a flash, fixed forever.

Photographs are.