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Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

We've got a major problem in our culture, as it relates to the Internet and pornography and child pornography.

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.

Some people have therapy, some people are alcoholics or they're in AA. Some people jump out of planes on weekends or find ways to release this kind of thing. And for me, it's acting. I find acting very therapeutic for whatever it is.

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.

A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.

At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance.

Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.

An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.