It is true that there is nothing like a blaze in the hearth to soothe the nerves and restore order to a house.

There is nothing more seductive — and dangerous — than being listened to.

But to say that the race is the metaphor for the life is to miss the point. The race is everything. It obliterates whatever isn't racing. Life is the metaphor for the race.

Have you ever noticed?--people, no matter how beautiful or desirable, invariably will, if observed closely while going about their daily business of keeping alive, begin to seem like monsters.

Choice, with its inevitable invitations to loss, is always such a trial.

There is such a thing as the courage in remaining baffled.

What lies beneath this envelope of flesh and blood, hmm? Is it something special? Perhaps, when I peel it open, I will be able to see. Perhaps your screams will tell me everything I need to know.

... Paris was no more Babylon than it was New Jerusalem. All cities worthy of that name were both: they were one because they were the other...

If I'm feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer.

He says he's a beautician and sells you nutrition, and keeps all your dead hair for making underwear.

The person who looks at a photograph as a complete picture, unable to say anything about anything except the facts which existed at the moment of exposure, does not see very far.

The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.

If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?

Beyonce is more mature, she's her own woman. She always had it in her.

You have sexual tendencies that are not normal, and you should be ashamed of them.

Games have always a big part of my life. I was that kid freaking out over his new Nintendo.