“There is so much work to working that there are moments, moments, wher...” — Diane Arbus Quote

“There is so much work to working that there are moments, moments, where I stop and look around, and it seems too arduous to go on. It isn't, of course.”

“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.”

“I hated painting, and I quit right after high school because I was continually told how terrific I was... it made me feel shaky.”

“In our fast-food nation, we tend to think that the intellectual life, like everything else, can be had pre-chewed and in bulk just for the asking. But that attitude is a grievous insult to the people who spend their lives earning the respect of their literary peers and versing themselves in the arduous ways of their trade.”

“I love to write, so it rarely seems like work - even when it gets arduous.”

“For much of their history, life for most people in China was arduous and circumscribed - and people travelled as little as they could.”