There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

[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.

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

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

I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.

It seems that what I really want is a drug that will increase my consciousness of others, not myself.

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