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

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.

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

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

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.

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 do like to live in other people's homes. I enjoy being a guest. I am an inexpensive guest. When one lives in another's home he can enter into the psychic kingdom of that person.