Self-reinvention is an essential trope of the American project, closely linked to another such trope: going on the lam. Both are regularly featured in movies and novels and suchlike. Criminals and persons loitering with and without intent hold a crucial… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
Call yourself "Colonel" and declare that your fortune was left to you by Dutch burghers from the seventeenth century. Now you're a solid citizen, the embodiment of hard work and rugged individualism. You're no criminal. The criminal is the guy… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
All I know about 1970s New York City is that it's where I grew up, and you always have an umbilical connection to the time and place of your growing up. It was cheap, didn't have too many people in it, you could go to the movies or whatever on the spur of the moment, you could get by without… — Luc Sante Copy Share
Many writers and artists portrayed the poor sympathetically, and even fought on their behalf, but they themselves were not of that class. Gay life… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
My method is the magpie's: I look for shiny things. That is, I look for concrete material details of daily life, and I look… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
Neoliberalism seems to ramp up every day, making it ever more difficult for anyone but corporations to own and run things and define the… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
When I was a child I did engage in an arduous struggle to pass: learning English, getting rid of my accent, becoming conversant with… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
The con is a kind of jiu-jitsu that turns the sucker's own greed into its principal weapon. The greedier you are the more likely you are to be conned, and for the greater a sum. Since people regularly dispose of their intelligence in their rush to be swindled, and then turn right around and do it again, humans must want… — Luc Sante Copy Share
The US remains an object of fascination for me, and the subject of much study, but while many of my friends etc. are American… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
I try to take pictures on their own terms, considering the historical and social context from which they emerge. — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
I've always assumed it to be an absolute requirement for being a writer: to find all emotions and the sources of all behaviors somewhere… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
Self-reinvention is an essential trope of the American project, closely linked to another such trope: going on the lam. Both are regularly featured in… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
I confess I prefer to engage with pictures which I've chosen myself out of the welter of unidentified pictures, without the intrusion of too… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
