You've been marked and labeled in the spiritual world just by virtue of your birth. If you claim the family name of Christian, you are being hunted to be destroyed.

You will not be poor for giving away love. But you will be a poor soul if you don't give away love.

A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.

I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

My children are the most important thing in my life.

Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.

As an adult, I can't blame my parents any more.

Survivors told me that sleep was a great escape from the nightmare that was Jonestown. I also longed for bedtime each night at Escuela Caribe; sleep allowed me to forget where I was for a few hours.

In a marriage, you and your partner come first. And unless you and your partner are happy, that kid's never going to be happy.

Oh, hasten not this loving act, Rapture where self and not-self meet: My life has been the awaiting you, Your footfall was my own heart's beat.

I rarely write by myself.