Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

The feminist movement has been important to me because it's made me feel less odd and also because it has made me understand some of the pressures on women which I was lucky enough to have escaped, perhaps because of my eccentricity or the oddness of my upbringing.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

In the United States it's not important which religion you adhere to, as long as you have one.

taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. Nothing is more decisive. There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion - and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.