I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.

I don't trust words. I trust pictures.

Even before I started photography, I began to see that there was a disjunction between available languages and reality.

I am bad at memory - this is why I shoot pictures.

[The photograph is] still a space to reorganize our thoughts about reality and our place in the world. How do you disentangle the surface of reality?

If you cannot understand me in my speech, how can you understand me in my silence?

That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.

Which of my Jewish roots do I follow?

...the administration of the law can never go lax where every individual sees to it that it grows not lax in his own case, or in cases which fall under his eyes.

...You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.

An object never serves the same function as its image - or its name.

The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.

A parenting program should focus on parent's attitudes to themselves, their children, and the relationships they are building with their children.

Read comics. All comics. And then cut them open to steal their power.