How does photography serve to legitimate and normalize existing power relationships? ... How is historical and social memory preserved, transformed, restricted and obliterated by photographs?

The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.

The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.

Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and foremost, as an act of self-expression on the part of the artist.

Black-and-white photos tell the truth. That's why insurance companies use them.

The making of a human likeness on film is a political act.

Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy.

Deep within ourselves, we find the inner being, the inner source of love, which is our true nature. Love is the only reality, because only love works.

Depriving our communities of libraries will deprive our society of its ability to survive. - Neil Gaiman

There is nothing safer than flying - it's crashing that is dangerous.

Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.

My daily diet consists of basically anything I think looks tasty, whether that's pizza, sushi, burgers, quesadillas. I like everything.

Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness - or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

I guess a drag queen's like an oil painting: You gotta stand back from it to get the full effect.

Growing up, I used to watch Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, All in the Family. Those were the shows I watched growing up with my family. And, believe it or not, McMillan and Wife and Columbo.

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.