If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.

I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.

In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.

Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.

It's not that you aren't likable. On the contrary. You are. It's just that one wonders if you haven't made a career out of being so likable.

I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.

It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life.