...the worry over media manipulation of photographs pales beside the threat that we will be exposed to an unedited, unvetted picture world where all images seem equally important and equally trivial.

...photography repeats itself unconsciously and unavoidably, producing stereotypes that then are repeated ad infinitum.

The photograph suggests that our image of reality is made up of images. It makes explicit the domination of mediation.

...truth-telling may be an ethic, adopted by photojournalists as a behavior, but experience shows us that it is not embedded in the medium like silver salts in film.

Facts cling to photographs like dust.

If you draw the gun and don't shoot right, you're shot down!

How did you know it was love?" "It never really hurt this much before.

Reason may be a small force, but it is constant, and works always in one direction, while the forces of unreason destroy one another in futile strife.

I will not bond. I will not share. I refuse to nurture.

Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.

Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world.

There's a big difference between being numb to something and being immune to it.

Well, I'm really not supposed to speak to strangers, but we've met before.

I mean, I'm a fan of Eminem. I'm a fan first and foremost. Maybe before I wouldn't have challenged him, but I'm contemplating it now.

So different, this man And this woman: A stream flowing In a field.