If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.

Life is not about significant details, illuminated a flash, fixed forever.Photographs are.

God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.

It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized.

My feelings tried to control me on my run. I had to concentrate fully on forthcoming running and success. I wanted to triumph.

[To her younger sister on using drugs:] If you do that stuff, you're dancing with the devil, because you never know when you're going to cross the line and not be able to get back.

You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains.

I don't [even] know the number of books on Abraham Lincoln. Ten thousand, twelve thousand? I have seen various numbers. It seems like every generation is always trying to come to terms with Lincoln.

I can be an emotional eater. Of late, I have been doing that, yes. It started when I was very little. My brothers were gone on tour a lot, and I would miss them so much.

While his removal will not necessarily bring an immediate end to terrorist activity, I have absolutely no doubt that the world is a safer place without Osama Bin Laden.

It's not a matter of rejection (of Israel's existence). Israel is here, present by power.

In a country where only men are encouraged, one must be one's own inspiration.