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There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul.

No big corporation would promote a hunchback.

Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.

We know our lives are chaotic, but we insist that everything happen in an orderly way and be logically conceived.

Life is a state of mind.

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.

It's not that you aren't likable. On the contrary. You are. It's just that one wonders if you haven't made a career out of being so likable.

Living is an arbitrary matter and I have every right to renounce it.

No one can help me find answers, least of all someone who claims he's found a solution to life.

Take a look at the books other people have in their homes.

Accents don't show up in music.

I write when I feel like it, and I feel like it most of the time.

Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States.

Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.

Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.

I am curious about grownups, not children.

Our language has lost its ability to convey the spontaneous.

Chance waited patiently until she stopped.

Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.

My cynicism continuously undermines her faith in her own ability to master her moods.

My choice of a life of adventure may well have been a result of the fact that action raised my blood pressure giving me enough energy to live.

Ruined chimneys rose above masses of broken bricks

I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

I deserve no punishment at all for being who I am.

There should be no promise of a plot. Plot is extraordinary, while chance is ordinary.

Freezing kills the flavor.

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.

Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.

It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one.

Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression.

He had found the one calm place in the midst of the storm, a quiet voice calling him to earth.

As a boy I got the idea that death was an animal which lay curled inside waiting to swallow us.

The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.

All my life I've been hiding.

So this is insanity. How interesting. What happens next?

There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.

She protected herself by making herself believe no-one else could ever really understand her.

Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?"
- from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird

It seems that what I really want is a drug that will increase my consciousness of others, not myself.

I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call it Eternity

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life

I'm sure there are aspects of my personality buried within me that will surface as soon as I know I am completely loved.

When people claim to know who I am, I can no longer act freely.

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself.

The recent Dictionary of Occupational Titles lists over twenty thousand specialized professions in America; being a millionaire is not one of them.

There were innumerable selves that he evoked in her.

Of all mammals, only a human being can say 'no.

I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them.

In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.

I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves.

You don't die in the United States, you underachieve.

All my father saw was what he wanted to see.

I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all.

Take whatever you can from others, and when there is nothing left, forget about them.

It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life.

That's why she keeps her nails long, she says, to be able to scratch and claw.

If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.

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 have always suspected everyone who likes me of having poor judgment. I despise them for being so easily taken in.

Wouldn't it be easier to change people's eyes and hair than to build big furnaces and then catch Jews and Gypsies to burn them?