The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV and box architecture, brutalizes the senses, making gray neurotics of most of us, and perverse spiritual athletes and strident self-transcenders of the best of us.

My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.

The public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself.

Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads – as an anthology of images. To collect photographs is to collect the world

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.