Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment.

Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.

I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.

You don't die in the United States, you underachieve.

My choice of a life of adventure may well have been a result of the fact that action raised my blood pressure giving me enough energy to live.

[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.

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