Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation.

To photograph is to confer importance.

It's almost as if this is the fundamental procedure in modern society: duplication and recycling.

It's so effortless to let my loneliness defeat me, make me mold myself to whatever would (in some way - but not wholly) relieve it. I must never forget it... I want sensuality and sensitivity, both... Let me never deny that... I want to err on the side of violence and excess, rather than to underfill my moments.

The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes. Adept of the joys of watching, connoisseur of empathy, the flâneur finds the world 'picturesque.

The single most amazing phenomenon is the discrediting of idealism.

If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.