Leave my image alone... I will behave as I think I should and I will not change anything.

Anyone who says he is not emotional is not getting what he should out of life.

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are going.

It's not your enemies who are likeliest to hurt you. It is, always, those you trust.

No one is too far away to be cared for, or to care.

In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee.

I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime.

Fun is a sugar-coated physic.

I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them.

Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary.

I'm from Oklahoma. I mean, you can't have good hair in Oklahoma. That's why everyone wears hats. The wind just messes it up.

Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.