We were really poor when I was growing up; my parents, both artists, were bohemians. Life was a desperate struggle, but in service of a high ideal, which is exactly what my photographs are about.

It seemed clear to me early on that one of the things a photograph could do was make a reality, and I wanted to do that. I always think of looking inside an Easter egg and seeing a perfect world.

There's something political about creating a world that you want to exist.

There's this way that photography is always about going out searching. I'm not the kind of a photographer who can photograph my home.

A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.

We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry.

I hate fallen angels. They can talk about nothing but their fall and sins.

To ensure assimilation we want to ensure that it works. Assimilation, an important word. Integration and upward mobility.

...Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.

The one thing a person wants in life is usually something basic that money can't buy.

A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

We need to deal with the problem of al Qaeda, make sure that they can't have a sanctuary in Afghanistan and guarantee that we have regional stabilization and particularly focused on Pakistan.

You can go on changing the outer for lives and you will never be satisfied.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.