Photography can strip from the world that spiritual dust and grime with which our eyes have covered it.

Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

Every image is to be seen as an object and every object as an image.

All films are born free and equal.

[The photograph] is the object itself... [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model of which it is the reproduction; it is the model.

The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.

Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

if the conditions and or circumstances are right anybody will turn against anyone...

Must I wonder if your thoughts are of me? If you are missing me, wanting me, creating heart beats and poet-less words for me? [ i do…]

Your pain and anger will pass, but the guilt would remain with you for always.

Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!

If, if more stimulus means more tax cuts to small businesses, if, if more stimulus means middle class tax cuts, then I'm for it.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Even the most beautiful legs - Marlene Dietrich's, for instance - look better when the kneecap is covered.

The book is first and foremost something I made for myself.

A genuine quality of life comes from consistent, quality questions.