To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self.

Blondes are like white mice, you only find them in cages. They wouldn’t last long in nature. They’re too conspicuous.

The facts of this world seen clearly are seen through tears.

It is my contention that the process of reading is part of the process of writing, the necessary completion without which writing can hardly be said to exist.

The act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being looked at than how.

I saw all of the films [based on The Tempest] available, including the one with Helen Mirren in which Prospero is Prospera - you wonder, "Would it work?" But it does, because anything she does works.

All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.