“It was not an adventure; it was my life.”

“A flock of sheep near the airport or a high voltage generator beside the orchard: these combinations open up my life like a wound, but they also heal it. That's why my feelings always come in twos.”

“I’ve never been in those places where I’ve never been and never will be, I have no share in the infinity of light-years and dark-years, but the darkness is mine, and the light, and my time is my own. ”

“The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day of work. Just as a magician takes towers and rabbits out of his hat, he drew love from his small body.”

“Spy (1973)Many years ago,I was sentto spy out the land beyond the age of thirty.And I stayed thereand didn’t go back to my senders,so as not to be madeto tellabout this landand madeto lie.”

“I know a man who photographed the view he saw from the window of the room where he made love and not the face of the woman he loved there.”

“And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to belike barbed wire to keep out despair,hope must be a mine field.”