I believe that the (distorting) mirror which is photography holds an intrinsic, even elemental, relation to writing.

It's unarguable to say that every one of us has been moved by the beauty of what I have called snapshots, but for photographers they are charms and proverbs, and like lightening or wild strawberries.

If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work less as a document of something than as a personal vision of the world.

Cameras are like dogs, but dumb, and toward quarry, even more faithful. They point, they render, and defy the photographer who hopes.

[The photograph] is fabricated out of the unfabricated dross of passing life (while paradoxically still trading on the indexical heft of that dross).

So much of who I was then I'm not today, I've changed for the better through the years, I've grown spiritually. I look at people differently, everyone is unique in their own special way

I believe that human beings are born first and given passports later. I'm really thankful for my journey. And it's a journey I didn't design.

My acting coach breaks down what happens to people's bodies when they do drugs. She breaks down what happens physiologically to you.

It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.

It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you’re alone. It feels less like a wound, more like a poultice.

I don't think you ever silence critics. They'll be critics in the morning. That's part of the deal.

When you attain to an egoless emptiness great creativity happens.

The use of military force against Iran would be very dangerous. It would be very provocative. The only thing worse would be Iran being a nuclear power.

Watching kids go from the age of 9 and 10 to 13 is a big, huge jump. The way they speak, their looks, their attitudes, everything changes as you go from being a little kid to a teenager.

Concentration comes not from trying hard to focus on something, but from keeping your mind open and directing it at nothing.