[On marriage:] It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

I can't say I know how to change the society, but I share the feeling that this society is full of technology which depersonalizes people, which seems to drain a sense of reality from our lives. It's full of a lot of other things too.

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am.