 And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have. |
| I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel. |
| Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time. |
| I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art. |
| I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them. |
| If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one. |
| A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life. |
| The principle of art is to pause, not bypass. |
| It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life. |
| In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter. |
| The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. |
| Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky. |
| Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership. |
| I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day. |
| 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. |
| There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital. |
| It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one. |
| I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me. |
| 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. |
| Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort. |
