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.

[Nabokov's] language is made visible . . . like a veil or transparent curtain. You cannot help seeing the curtain as you peek into the intimate rooms behind.

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

- Growth has its season. There are spring and summer, but there are also fall and winter. And then spring and summer again. As long as the roots are not severed, all is well and all be well.

Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression.

If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.

Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.