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

She seemed to belong to that pagan, primitive kingdom of birds and forests where everything was infinitely abundant, wild, blooming, and royal in its perpetual decay, death, and rebirth; illicit and clashing with the human world.

When people claim to know who I am, I can no longer act freely.

A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.

Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.

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

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