I was shooting at myself - I was shooting my own violence and the violence of the times

Life ... is never the way one imagines it. It surprises you, it amazes you, and it makes you laugh or cry when you don't expect it.

Music is the softest cushion in the world.

Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.

The kind of people we have in Washington only trust what they think they own.

The rinsed foam swirled into one drain that always clogged come October when the maples dropped Canadian propaganda over everything.

When God talks to humans he doesn't want humans to hear his voice.

The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves.

I've no interest in fashion, shoes, handbags, or sweaty shopping.

The reality is that nearly 80 percent of the world's purchasing power lies outside the United States, and if we don't tap those markets, others will.

When we change the way that we pray, everything changes.

Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!

I hope always to be busy, even if only directing an orchestra in the pit. However, I should prefer to produce movies or be the directing head of a radio corporation.

I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.