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 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.

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

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

I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them.

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.