Film is difficult to explain because it is easy to understand.

The person who has been photographed, not the total person, is dead, dead for having been seen.

The familiar photographs that many people carry with them always obviously belong to the order of fetishes in the ordinary sense of the word.

I would say that the off-frame effect in photography results from a singular and definitive cutting-off which figures castration and is figured by the click of the shutter.

I had to learn what my grandfather and mother knew about some of this journey’s problems. My job was to sit back and let the Lord work it out according to His will. That’s the best way —always!

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

His voice was like the roar of rushing waters, and the land was radiant with His glory.

Though there are still many good people out there in the world, it seems that they're vastly outnumbered by the stupid, selfish, violent ones.

You can wear your hair long or wear a beard because you want to show that you are interested in thought, in psychological endeavors rather than appearance.

Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?

The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.

Lord, I surrender. I am completely overcome by your love.

After a grueling leg workout nothing feels better than a slow, deep massage on your quads.

I believe we have all this image stuff and blah, blah, blah but at the end of the day it all boils down to music don't you think?