I am not the river I am the net.

Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.

Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate. Get the rich, the greedy, the criminals, the stupid leader and so on ad nauseam.

Create or arouse such unbridled forces and you built carnal fantasies of enormous complexity. You could lead whole populations around by their desires, by their fantasy projections.

Let the tumult inside you, bring you peace and solitude.

Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.

I begin by not photographing.

Our knowledge of physics only takes us back so far. Before this instant of cosmic time, all the laws of physics or chemistry are as evanescent as rings of smoke.

I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.

I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs.

It is simply that America is very rich and very powerful and generally speaking everybody hates the rich and the powerful.

Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief.

I'm filled with awe, as I always am, as I watch her transform from a woman who calls me to kill a spider to a woman immune to fear.