Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.

The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

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

[Nabokov's] language is made visible . . . like a veil or transparent curtain. You cannot help seeing the curtain as you peek into the intimate rooms behind.

I do like to live in other people's homes. I enjoy being a guest. I am an inexpensive guest. When one lives in another's home he can enter into the psychic kingdom of that person.

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