I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

Life is not about significant details, illuminated a flash, fixed forever.

Photographs are.

Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.

Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex.

The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth. . . the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV and box architecture, brutalizes the senses, making gray neurotics of most of us. . .