The memory of war, however, like all memory, is mostly local.

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.)

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

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.

The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self - our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.

Women aren't mean the way that men are. They're full of life and they're like God in that way.

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

I don't think I'm one of those guys who won't pick up a racket for three years...I love hitting tennis balls.

I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.

I'm always on the look out for 'the good image'. I'm like The Borg (you know, Star Trek) inasmuch as I assimilate everything - but I like to think I'm working in the Pop Art tradition.

I think dieting is bad for you.

If you can't be famous, at least you can be notorious.

The 70's was a great time for artistic expression in Jamaica and I was in the heart of it, unconsciously soaking it up and paving my future.

Yuki: "Honda-san... you'd better stop, or he'll get a swelled head." Kyo: "Doesn't Shigure already HAVE a swelled head?