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“If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.”
“I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.”
“Take a look at the books other people have in their homes.”
“It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one.”
“Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.”
“Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.”
“I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.”
“A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.”
“Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.”
“I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.”
“Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.”
“In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.”
“Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.”
“There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.”
“In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul.”
“As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.”
“I do like to live in other people's homes. I enjoy being a guest. I am an inexpensive guest. When one lives in another's home he can enter into the psychic kingdom of that person.”
“A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.”
“It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life.”
“Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment.”