In the act of love, as in photography, there is a form of life and a kind of slow death.

Art is all about doing what you shouldn't.

I only tie up woman's body because I know I cannot tie up her heart. Only her physical parts can be tied up. Tying up a woman becomes an embrace.

Only artists without talent try to shock people.

You are either born to be a photographer or not. The art of photography is not something you can learn in the classroom or by watching someone do it.

There is a camera is between a man and a woman.

The camera itself, the photograph itself, calls up death.

A photographer cannot be inexperienced, or too mature. A photographer ought to be half-ripe.

Don't you think that it is necessary to have a sense of brutality in photography?

He patted the side of the wyrm's head. The animal did not react: it was a stone fallen from the sky, still smoldering.

Rich just needs a more expensive shoe, but poor just needs a shoe!

Smiles are the language of love.

[I do] my manicure/pedicure once a week. When I'm on the road, I use the hotel or whoever I call. But in Miami I have my own person.

Above average intelligence has always run in my family. Ambition, however, has always walked with a limp.

May we sit at the foot of the cross; and there learn what sin has done, what justice has done, what love has done.

By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job.

Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers.

It's the greatest of Southern honors . . . to have one's name incorporated into a family tree. It's an honor not lightly given.

To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.