When I write now, I pretend I'm holding hands with the old me. I try to make sense of all those questions for her.

Take care not to listen to anyone who tells you what you can and can't be in life.

Nothing ends. There is only transformation, ugly as it may be.

Growing up is like walking through glass doors that only open one way--you can see where you came from but can't go back.

Reality is complicated. There is no justification for all of the hasty conclusions.

How are we ever going to understand what happens when a civilization comes apart at the seams, as it did in Germany, if we fail to see the most glaring distinctions, such as the gender gap?

If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love.

Things that are not at all, are never lost.

We're all born with infinite potential and creativity. We all have it in us. Each and every one of us. That's the only truth

No one ever succeeds without the help of others.

Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery.

Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine.

You cannot simplify love by cutting away all but its essence.

Photographs are two-dimensional. I work in four dimensions.