“I was looking at the photographs and I started thinking that there was a time when these weren't memories.”

“A photograph it a souvenir of a memory.
It is not a moment.
It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.”

“I have an undeveloped photographic memory.”

“Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.”

“The faded photographs
The frames of broken glass
The shattered memories
Time will soon erase all these souvenirs
Falls from a thousand tears
But when I wake up you are never there.”

“This is a photograph of me as I wish I looked all the time. Then I might have a chance of getting in Hollywood.”

“One of the techniques that I use to imitate psychic phenomena is photographic memory.”

“I look at you and you look at me and
deep in our hearts know it

That you weren't much of a muse,
but then I weren't much of a poet”

“Every year, the memories I have of my father become more faint, unclear, and distant. once they were vivid and true, then they became like photographs, and now they are more like photographs of photographs.”

“I spend most of my day screaming and then over time I get tired and then when I'm tired, I start thinking of the jokes.”