It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one.

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.

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.

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.

Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.

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.

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