Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us.

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.

To the militant, identity is everything.

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

Is there an antidote to the perennial seductiveness of war? And is this a question a woman is more likely to pose than a man? (Probably yes.)

No "we" should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.

It is intolerable to have one's sufferings twinned with anybody else's.

To set their sufferings alongside the sufferings of another people was to compare them (which hell was worse?), demoting Sarajevo's martyrdom to a mere instance.

With time, many staged photographs turn back into historical evidence, albeit of an impure kind - like most historical evidence.

I love you and it's getting worse.

The Cinderella story in reverse. I only wish there were ashes in the fireplace so I could order you to sweep them out.

So that’s what art is, for the artist, ” said Crake. “An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.

I am an education ambassador, mainly working with schools.

Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.

My own feeling of concern arises from seeing how much moral injury and suffering is created by the superstitions of the Christian mythology.

Every new thing you make will be (should be) the nicest thing you’ve made so far, because you’re learning and getting better with each and every new project.

The reign of God is his reign over all things.

We can call it Isratine.

Any suggestion that the most open and diverse society on the planet is likely to in any way resemble Russia requires a suspension of common sense that is pretty hard to deal with.