whatever doesn't kill you leaves scars.

Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom.

Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead.

In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty & beauty. You get dwarfs.

Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility . . . . Artists have had to become self-conscious aestheticians: continually challenging their means, their materials and methods.

There are some elements in life - above all, sexual pleasure - about which it isn't necessary to have a position.

Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real.