... the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book is one of the main reasons I read; but it doesn't happen every time or even every other time, and when it does happen, I am truly beside myself.

Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away.

We have lived through the era when happiness was a warm puppy, and the era when happiness was a dry martini, and now we have come to the era when happiness is 'knowing what your uterus looks like'.

And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.

I have no desire to be dominated. Honestly I don't. And yet I find myself becoming angry when I'm not.