In fact, there are many uses of the innumerable opportunities a modern life supplies for regarding - at a distance, through the medium of photography - other people's pain.

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.

To the militant, identity is everything.

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

Is there an antidote to the perennial seductiveness of war? And is this a question a woman is more likely to pose than a man? (Probably yes.)

Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us.

No "we" should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.

It is intolerable to have one's sufferings twinned with anybody else's.

To set their sufferings alongside the sufferings of another people was to compare them (which hell was worse?), demoting Sarajevo's martyrdom to a mere instance.

And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.

Never doubt, when you begin with something that it will end in failure. Our thought is transformed as picture in our mind.

When I type a title page, I hold it and I look at it and I think, I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I’ll have a book.

Expect to wonder to find wonder.

The history of all times and of today especially teaches that... women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves.

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

While everyone else was saying Trick or Treat my dad was telling us to say Triki Tras.

How can we tax people for not buying a product from a website that doesn't work?

Lines drawn into his face suggested he had spent many years thinking very hard over very difficult problems.

God does so love to make a man break a promise.