[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.

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

The popular culture says . . . Do what you do, your life is predestined, like the installment plan on your house. There's not much you can do about it. Make your payments, live it, get sick, die, don't make any trouble. It is the Master Charge of destiny. Try to get your high credit rating.

I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all.

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.

Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression.

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