The movie stars and matinee idols are put into the public domain by photography. They become dreams that money can buy. They can be bought and thumbed more easily than public prostitutes.

The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends.

Any breakdown is a breakthrough.

It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.

Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment.

The genteel is a mighty catafalque of service-with-a-smile and flattering solicitude smothering every spontaneous movement of thought or feeling.

By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds.