Take a look at the books other people have in their homes.

My choice of a life of adventure may well have been a result of the fact that action raised my blood pressure giving me enough energy to live.

Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression.

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

Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.

I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves.

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