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.

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

Don't simply dream, create. Don't simply create, ship. Don't simply ship, dream.

I've always had a keen sense of history. My father was an antiques dealer and he used to bring home boxes full of treasures, and each item always had a tale attached.

He thought about the next time he would laugh with her and then the next. He found himself often thinking about the future, even before the present was over.

Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again.

Give the clergy your sympathy; don't give them anything else.

If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.

When you are single mom - don't be afraid to get out there and date, and have a little bit of fun. We're still women... we're still feminine... and we still have needs.

The poem of the understanding is philosophy.

To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent.

The word "emptiness" for example, is a very important word both in Christianity and in Buddhism. It has shades of meaning however, that are different in the respective traditions.