A photograph is not merely a substitute for a glance. It is a sharpened vision. It is the revelation of new and important facts.

The function of the photographer is to help people understand the world around them.

The question of naturalism is a fallacy, it does not exist... The photographic image replaces naturalistic experience.

Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.

Faith does not ignore the facts, it ignores the power of the facts.

But that's what we all are-just stories. We only exist by how people remember us, by the stories we make of our lives. Without the stories, we'd just fade away.

I need you by me, beside me, to guide me, to hold me, to scold me, cause when I'm bad, I'm so, so bad.

When we try to get ourselves out of the way, we can understand much better the needs of the people closest to us.

The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.

With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain.

What really matters to me is what my peers think.

Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.

I think it is obvious that people repeat acts that are shown on the television or the screen and I wouldn't want to inspire any violence on anyone.