It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me.

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort

I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique.

It goes in streaks. But some things never go out of fashion.' Hunger artists, fat folks, giants, and dog acts come and go but real freaks never lose their appeal.

[Pride and power] are the same except that pride leaves the lights on and power can do it in the dark.

Mariam saw now the sacrifices a mother made. Decency was but one.

I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can.'

I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.

A man does not please long when he has only species of wit.

Let's put it this way - I photograph what interests me all the time. I live with the pictures to see what that thing looks like photographed. I'm saying the same thing; I'm not changing it.

America has a genius for the encouragement of fame.

I could only wonder again at the white race's naïveté in always sending forth our worst members as our emissaries.

There's always a tension in my world between the pragmatic and the practical and the theoretical. I have a very theoretical turn of mind, but I also like to test things in place.

Enjoy life. Have fun. Be kind. Have worth. Have friends. Be honest. Laugh. Die with dignity. Make the most of it. It's all we've got.

The one thing I would hope would go on my tombstone is, 'I made my parents proud.'