I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.

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

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.

Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?" - from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird

In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul.

Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.

A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.