The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence.

Mad people = People who stand alone and burn. I'm attracted to them because they give me permission to do the same.

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.

the process of building a self and its works is always too slow. One is always in arrears to oneself.

My library is an archive of longings.

The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations.