Documentary is a little like horror movies, putting a face on fear and transforming threat into fantasy, into imagery. One can handle imagery by leaving it behind. (It is them, not us.)

Any familiarity with photographic history shows that manipulation is integral to photography.

Photography [can] be seen as a system of representation that you bring to bear on other systems.

Take the Money and Run? Can Political and Socio-Critical Art ‘Survive’?

Just going out on a foray to assemble a collection of street trophies about this or that running social sore can't be effective - and never was.

How useful are documentary photographs if there is no follow up, no way of knowing what happened next in the story?

Are we asserting the easy dominion of our civilization over all times and all places, as signs that we casually absorb as a form of loot?

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point.

As a hobbyist, there's something about miniature anything that captures my imagination.

In my opinion, fundamentalist Christians are just as bad as fundamentalist Islam and, at the very core, neither religion is like that.

Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.

Self-sacrifice usually contains an unspoken demand for payment.

Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.

I am at a stage in my life where I want to only do thing that I love. I only want to do things that make me happy. Making money is important, but it's not my ultimate driver.

Aside from the equivalent of blowing up the lab or letting a pathogen escape, the only failure is spending too long or too much money to learn.

One becomes gradually accustomed to a new realization of the nature of 'happiness': one has to assume happiness when Fate does not carry out all its threats simultaneously.