“Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.”

It is not the position, but the disposition.

A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.

All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.

I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.

My library is an archive of longings.

In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.

How boring just to be a body.

I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.

No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.

It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

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

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Photographers are always imposing.

I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.

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

You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.

To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.

My love for you is immeasurable, my respect for you immense. You’re ageless, timeless, lace and fineness, you’re beauty and elegance.

Love’s in need of love today, don’t delay send yours in right away.

I just always wear bows. I always love bows, and it’s always been my thing.

I truly have a great love for an audience, and I used to want to prove it to them by giving them blood.

I would love to be a pop star!

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.