Monsters exist because we create them, through war and violence, and distortion, and the way we handle people and so on.

I think of myself as a kind of reporter; I report on the nature of certain events. I think of art as a report on civilization at a certain time.

Artists are part of the information process... Visual history is important in providing a record of what is going on - levels of intention, levels of confidence, levels of aggression or control.

Over the years a photo-mania developed. At times, photographic images have signaled a way forward and gotten me out of a bind.

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.

LibrariesAreNeccessaryGardens, UnsurpassedAtGrowingExcitement

It was the end for something. It was the beginning for another. But in reality it just fell in the middle. In that confusing moment of time between my birth and my death.

If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.

It's incorrect to assume you can be a fashion editor because you blog, if you don't have experience to look at fashion in a professional way.

I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that

Forever used to feel like a curse. Now it feels like a promise.

I don't like new bands. I don't want to be one of those pathetic old men in their forties who knows exactly what 18-year-olds are into.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. A pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention.