All my father saw was what he wanted to see.

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

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.

There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.

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.

Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.

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.