Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression.

She seemed to belong to that pagan, primitive kingdom of birds and forests where everything was infinitely abundant, wild, blooming, and royal in its perpetual decay, death, and rebirth; illicit and clashing with the human world.

Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.

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.

It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life.

Take whatever you can from others, and when there is nothing left, forget about them.

All my father saw was what he wanted to see.