In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings.

I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months.

The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise.

Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.

My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.

Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.

More than anything, one is struck by the light. Light everywhere. Brightness everywhere. Everywhere, the sun.

Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general - a desire to preserve oneself.

Our job is like a baker's work - his rolls are tasty as long as they're fresh; after two days they're stale; after a week, they're covered with mould and fit only to be thrown out.

When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered.

To Be Trained Is To Be Strengthened

MOTHER TIME: We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them.

SWAT is already on its way. I'll be at your position in about ten minutes. SWAT should arrive in about fifteen to twenty."[Javier:] "I'll have her by then.

There is a ghost That eats handkerchiefs It keeps you company On all your travels.

I'm in love with beauty and things and people and love and being in love, and those things, I think, on the inside, show on the outside.

Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.

A chiropractor accomplished in three weeks what the army doctors haven't been able to do in two years.

Even the written history [of Abraham Lincoln's times] is poorly understood by most people.

Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.

Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.