I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.

Men are separated by so many petty things.

Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world.

Your belief system saturates the space around you.

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

More Medals of Honor were given for the indiscriminate slaughter of women and children than for any battle in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan.

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

Everest is completely out of control. It's like crack.

Sometimes our heroes let us down.

For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.

I am like a table that eats its own legs off because it’s fallen in love with the floor.

People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.

Dinosaurs replace their teeth throughout their life. And T. rex replaced all of their teeth every year.

Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even when we are afraid.

There is therefore a tremendous mystery in the fact that God may be united with man and the man with God.

Respecting others' opinions doesn't mean being untrue to our own.

We have all felt those emotions in these last few days. So what I say to you now, as your queen and as a grandmother, I say from my heart.

No religion is better than an unnatural one.