Chance was to work in the garden, where he would care for plants and grasses and trees which grew there peacefully. He would be as one on them: quiet, open hearted in the sunshine and heavy when it rained.

I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.

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

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 collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.

All my life I've been hiding.

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.