As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image.

Representation, then, is not - nor can it be - neutral; it is an act - indeed the founding act - of power in our culture.

We weren't really friends yet, just knowers of each other's secret stuff.

Forget Batman: when I really thought about what I wanted to be when I grew up, I wanted to be my dad.

Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.

For all kinds of reasons, it is more difficult to track women's lives. Women's words have simply been considered less important, so they have been preserved less often.

My opinion is just be very careful when you're young and making the money.

You have to have a dream, whether big or small. Then plan, focus, work hard and be very determined to achieve your goals.

When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works harm to his cause.

With the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth... the critic

The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it; and when it no longer feels any desire, then it possesses perfect charity.

You can't make something beautiful by trying to make something beautiful. Something becomes beautiful in the process of trying to be something else.