This boy thinks I am not of his species, that I am some other kind of creature, one that can be crushed under the weight of a phone book. The pain is not great, but the symbolism is disagreeable.

We are unusual and tragic and alive.

I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.

Life is happening right now, do not waste it in thinking rather enjoy it.

It was a culture that business is something bad - it was a leftist-oriented psychology. We have to break this. We are pro-business.

There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude? Or the wealthy? Or the good? Or the one best man? Or a tyrant?

The security of the woman is the security of society.

One of the things that make community colleges so special is they do not pick and choose their students - they work with all students.

It's easier to be responsible for the decisions that you've made yourself than for the ones that other people have made for you.

The more specific the interpretation suggested by a picture, the less happy I am with it.

Age isn't as important so long as you are surrounded by people you love, doing things you passionately believe in.

I am never five minutes into stripping the clutter from my life before I start running into the clutter that is my life.

Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a sense of the past.