The point at which the photograph ceases to function as a metaphor is the point at which it is free to propose an experiential model.

I wanted to make photographs in which everything was so complex and detailed that you could look at them forever and never see everything.

How should we judge what we see? More intimately, let us consider the vulnerability of the human body and soul under these circumstances. It’s all creation. It’s made. It’s not a given.

I'm interested in photographs that have no personal signature.

The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible.

Alice released a long exhale. "Showtime.

It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book. Also, when I write letters, I spend the next two days thinking about what I figured out in my letters.

I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can't ask for more than that.

...but the tale itself is a trickster and doesn't hesitate to lie. It is anachronistic with a vengeance. It emerges always and everywhere, overt or disguised, pureblood or hybrid, and healthy as sin.

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.

Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?

I think he loved us equally, but differently.

We might make a lot of money but, we also spend a lot of money.

In a world full of shifting borders, everything is happening all at once in every possible direction.

At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture.