I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.
If you want a transcript of tonight's program, get a pen and write down everything I said.
Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.
With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.
I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.
There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.
You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that.
The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.
Do you think I am standing here, making this up as I go? I am sorry to disillusion you. I am not Robin Williams. I am the king of the pen.
I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring.