Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?" - from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird

In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.

Life is a state of mind.

Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them.

In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul.

Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.

The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.

Like nature, our economic system remains, in the long run, stable and rational...We welcome the inevitable seasons of our economy! How foolish of us.

Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.

The only way the enemy can tamper with your actions is when

Authenticity is our natural state of being. The authentic self is a state of being where we are centered, creative, adaptive, and inspired.

While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis

From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.

What distinguishes man from the brute is his conscious striving to realise the spirit within.

The touchstone for family life is still the legendary 'and so they were married and lived happily ever after.' It is no wonder that any family falls short of this ideal.

I declare the 22nd Olympic Winter Games open.

There are lives to brighten. There are hearts to touch. There are souls to save.

Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works.

There's positive attention and there's negative attention - negative attention is easy, positive attention requires actual hard work.