“Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom.”

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality…or they enlarge a reality that is felt to be shrunk. One can’t possess reality, one can possess images—one can’t possess the present but one can possess the past.

My desire to write is connected to my homosexuality. I need the identity as a weapon to match the weapon that society has against me. I am just becoming aware of how guilty I feel being queer.