The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the forms of pleasure that art in a given time may offer.

Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads – as an anthology of images. To collect photographs is to collect the world

Mad people = People who stand alone and burn. I'm attracted to them because they give me permission to do the same.

Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!

Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail.