...there were only fifteen thousand polar bears in the world, and five billion of me. To let one of them devour my all-too-common flesh would, if only slightly, help adjust the grievous imbalance.

You are what you inhabit.

Unclean life is ungodliness.

What makes me feel rich is spending time with my children, knowing we are making beautiful memories together.

For when Iwaltzed with Chris, I'd made him someone else.

Nothing in the world is as mobile as capital. It can move anywhere in the world instantaneously.

All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.

There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend to be noticeably silly.

My camera is my compass; it's guided me to so many different places.

You can be sure that most of the high positions in the country would be empty if one were admitted only after an examination as severe as the one we painters must pass.

To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark.

The true mystic is always both humble and compassionate, for she knows that she does not know.