I'm interested in producing truncated shapes in proportion to the frame and composition, shapes that are preferably luminous. I'm not interested in the full-figure. I want to abstract forms.

I embrace the abstract in photography and exist on a few bits of order extracted from the chaos of reality.

I'm too impatient to use a tripod.

The French have a different take on photography than Americans do. They consider photography to be absolutely parallel to literature. That often makes for a deeper perception of the work.

To lose everything is not the worst can happen.""It's starting again, from nothing, with nothing, " Otah said."Is exactly this, " Maj agreed, then a moment later. "Starting again, and doing better.

I hope the Vandals had thorns in their sandals

None of my family had anything to do with show business, my life was totally foreign to them.

You can do anything with beer that you can do with wine. Beer is great for basting or marinating meat and fish.

I wouldn't participate in 'Stars on Ice' if I were asked. I find it an amateurish tour in a way, the production quality.

Leadership comes with consistency.

Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.

You can change your home. You know that. You do it every day.

I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.

I have been taught that we can make many choices in life, but we cannot choose our final destiny. Our actions do that.