I turned to photography because I thought it was the dominant language of our culture.

I don't think of myself as a photographer. I've engaged questions regarding photography's role in culture... but it is an engagement with a problem rather than a medium.

We can show what we hide but we can't hide what we show.

The biggest thing I possess is infinite patience. Once you are patient, things fall in place.

All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming.

After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason.

Assessment is today's means of modifying tomorrow's instruction.

I am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights.

Tell me everything, I would say. All about the blues, and the time your heart was broken, and what scares you the most, and the thing you've always wanted to do but haven 't yet.

There aren't enough cookies in the world to make you feel loved and whole.

Shakespeare drew a map of the human mind as clearly as Newton mapped the heavens. Wht is one considered science and the other fir only to be mocked with jokes about pretty girls and drury lane?

The only way to have room enough in our hearts to truly love others is to purge all hatred, and replace it with love.