Science teaches you to open your eyes and appreciate the reality around you. Religion teaches you to close your eyes and cling to the fantasy within you.

Don't shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.

Photographers can either look out the window at the world or they can look in the mirror.

So, according to the religious, you can only be good if you're scared of the consequences of being bad? Strange, I thought people were good because they care about each other?

It's a lot of work living the life that you want to live, but that's what I'm doing.

In the spirit of Vivian Maier, who worked unaided by any publication or commercial shooting, I set up the Emerging Photographer Fund

Religion: A lot of fanciful ideas inspired by wishful thinking. Science: A lot of logical ideas based on the best evidence available. Which should we have faith in?

The most important questions a human can ever ask must surely deserve the most convincing answers, not simply the most comforting?

The more tightly you cling to your faith, the looser your grip is on reality.

Only religion could justify killing an adult with a family because he carried out abortions of unwanted or unhealthy fetuses that don't even have the intelligence of a typical fish.

Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.

To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian-to help them is.

Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.

We are not brought by faith into a realm of passivity, but rather, we are brought into the realm of diligent activity.

No being incapable of controlling their own mind or developing ethics and a loving character can ever be a Master. First we must have accomplishment.

Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in their misery without the pity of anyone.

Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.

Knavery is the best defense against a knave.

Relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.

Sometimes, fact mixed with fiction so thoroughly that, though no lies were told, it was hard to remember what was strictly true.

That boy Mantle is a good one.