I want my photos to be fresh and urgent. A good photograph should be a call to arms.

I always say I make pictures rather than take pictures.

I don't work off lights and angles; I work off emotions. A mood that I create.

I like using snapshot cameras because they're idiot-proof. I have bad eyesight, and I'm no good at focusing big cameras.

Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography.

It's insane, the internet. Totally craziness. Like a little cancer. People can just do whatever they want, say whatever they want, be totally anonymous. It's totally out of control.

I never go see live comedy shows because I just sit in the audience thinking, "Here's what I would say. Here's what I would do if I got up there." It drives me crazy.

Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive.

Catastrophe and creation are twins.

A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.

The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto.

As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself.

It is still my dream to own a little flower shop.

If a fish feels sad when a fisherman's boat is sinking, and that fish owns a priceless treasure: The compassion! Have compassion, even for your enemies!

If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.