In the final analysis, photography... is ever a hireling, ever the hired gun.

As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced.

Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an exhausted lode.

The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life." -Shikamaru Nara

My main regret in life is that there is no MacArthur Fellowship awarded in the field of Panda Satire.

Most people weren't wired to see miracles, even when one was staring them in the face.

The danger in writing about a world you don't know very well is that you can get lost in it, and sometimes I'll end up with a hundred pages I don't know what to do with.

I’m prepared to take risks. And every movie that I do is a risk. No one knows what the movie is going out turn out like.

We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.

There be three gentle and goodlie things, To be here, To be together, And to think well of one another.

I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn’t. And that’s a tough place to be because you’re never satisfied.

O God, my God, the night has values that the day never dreamed of.