I could easily live in a world populated with disjunctive, bizarre things.

I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death.

Artists are the people among us who realize creation didn't stop on the sixth day.

I have consecrated my life to changing matter into spirit with the hope of someday seeing it all.

Extreme things are like miracles. Nothing is as boring as a person who is just okay.

If there is pain in my photographs, it relates to the pain in my own existence.

I operate out of confusion, towards clarity.

My purpose is to acknowledge the wonder of being part of Creation. Though I myself don't create anything, I make from what has been created.

My work would have the impact of my unreality - my doubts.

Books can be the people we never get to meet, ancestors or far neighbors.

If you don’t exist, then for you nothing exists.

Leopold, like most men of power and prestige, was not so much interested in listening to what others had to say as he was in having an audience.

A promise made is a debt unpaid.

I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting.

I love the NBA playoffs. It's just a great mental test for each team. When it's really close, usually one team pulls together, and the other team comes apart.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

You may loan your last dollar to a friend; but never loan him your axe, unless you are certain that he knows how to use it.

I was the youngest kid on my street, the youngest comic in the clubs. I always felt like I was playing catch-up. I was very angry.