“Life is not about significant details, illuminated a flash, fixed forever.Photographs are.”

“Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.”

“One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life.”

“What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer’s life seemed the most inclusive.”

“Life is a movie; death is a photograph.”

“Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification. I live my life but I don't live in it. The hoarding instinct in human relations.”

“It was not a question of knowledge...but of alertness, a fastidious transcription of what could be thought about something, once it swam into the stream of attention.”