Our editors, I'm afraid, have come to believe that the photograph is an end in itself. They've forgotten that the photograph is only the subsidiary, the little brother, of the word.

Too many times nowadays the picture is expected to tell the whole story, when in truth there's only one picture in a hundred thousand that can stand alone as a piece of communication.

Let's begin to cover the main street of America... just to see what the heck occurs on it.

There are times when you simply have to pose your model. The difference is in the kind of posing. It can be honest and dishonest, interesting and as wooden as a cigar store Indian.

The Devil can quote scripture, after all. And monsters can say "please" and "thank you" same as any mother's son.

She knows that it's not my fault if I don't know how many Zs there are in LOSER.

I try to turn a written thing, when I'm in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.

It is secular spiritual music, the gospel blues. It's music from the heart instead of the head.

Of course, I didn't imagine then that I could have had a real relationship with any guy. I thought that by virtue of being me I was disqualified.

It turns out your not dyslexic, your just really really stupid.

I am playing with my Self, I am playing with the world's soul, I am the dialogue between my Self and el espiritu del mundo. I change myself, I change the world.

I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

In a way, putting actors deep into this sort of complicated universe frees them from thinking about who they should be. They just are somebody.

It is a depressing fact that Americans tend to confuse morality and art (to the detriment of both) and that, among the educated, morality tends to mean social consciousness.