The making of a human likeness on film is a political act.

The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.

The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.

Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and foremost, as an act of self-expression on the part of the artist.

Black-and-white photos tell the truth. That's why insurance companies use them.

How does photography serve to legitimate and normalize existing power relationships? ... How is historical and social memory preserved, transformed, restricted and obliterated by photographs?

Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy.

Holy dreams.Holy decisions.Holy choices.Holy actions.

Do you remember? Do you remember the world before the dark? Do you remember the world with mothers and fathers and stillness that did not feel like death?

Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.

The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium.

Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.

In the end, I've found, people like the direct approach. It's much more valuable to them to have a leader who's absolutely clear and open than to have one who soft-soaps or talks in circles.

Leo, sadly, has Parkinsons, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things.

I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.

I was born not too far from Minneapolis, so it's nice to come back and visit.

Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?