She taught you how to be a person who refuses anything but the meaningful. [About Susan Sontag]

She was indomitable. [About Susan Sontag]

Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.

Is there an antidote to the perennial seductiveness of war? And is this a question a woman is more likely to pose than a man? (Probably yes.)

Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us.

All memory is individual, unreproducible - it dies with each person. What is called collective memory is not a remembering but a stipulating: that this is important, and this is the story about how it happened, with the pictures that lock the story in our minds.