As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.

It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one.

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

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

People say, "Well, you went on television, it enlarged your readership." It did not at all, not at all. I might as well tell you, I lost some readership, because the profound audience felt somehow bothered by my too easy manner.

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.

There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.