I don't look for things to see how they function as metaphors.... You can't photograph the sublime. You can only traffic in the specific and its relationship to the symbolic.

To photograph is often compared to an act of redemption - to select from an infinite number of choices that which is to be remembered.

The photograph as an object has a relationship to that which it represents something like the relationship the snake skin has to the snake that sheds it.

In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make the sublime itself.

It's good to be around people who see [photography] as a reasonable enterprise when everyone in the neighborhood may think it's ridiculous. (On the benefit of teaching photography)

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Democracy cannot function or survive without a sufficient medium by which citizens remain informed and engaged in public policy debates.

She prayed to the gods of love and the gods of destruction, for they are one and the same.

Artists always live in the cracks anyway, whatever culture they're in. They're usually accustomed to not having much money, to kind of roughing it.

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.

Donald Trump is a person who has been very cavalier, even casual about the use of nuclear weapons.

Worship is our response, both personal and corporate, to God for who He is, and what He has done; expressed in and by the things we say and the way we live.

Man created God in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent.

One thing I agree with Donald Trump on is, there's something going on in the Muslim world.