God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know - it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years and everyone must and can leave their contribution.

I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love.

What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.

I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.

I do not care about my own appearance, but I would hope that people could see into my soul, and that is presented better in these photographs than in others. (On his self-portraits)

When I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons, belts, and laces, it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper, freer breath.

By attempting the impossible one can attain the highest level of the possible.