I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself.

There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return. I suspect that whenever I articulate my thoughts or translate my impulses into words, I am betraying the real thoughts and impulses which remain hidden.

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

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States.

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

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