It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function.

What is liberty? The measure of dignity.

I have nothing against the smell of rot but something against what hides the smell of rot in the United States of America.

Nativity is the enemy of prophecy.

I love hiccups and I love sneezes and I love blinks and I love belches and I love gluttons. I love hair. I love bears. For me, the round. For me, the world.

Poetry must find ways of breaking distance.... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.

Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy.

Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.

Questions don't change the truth. But they give it motion.

Only what is fated to die is capable of living. Only what dies lives.

If you want to know what love is, have a child. If you want to know what pain is, bury him.

I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire.

If I live...I will live unafraid...I will live so all can see, I am not ashamed of who I am or what I'm designed to be!"-The Great Mephisto

It's important to me to have what I photograph undergo a certain transformation - to become a thing different from what we are used to, to be another version of itself.

Surrender one hair, and you'll end up beardless.

There is only one '' principle that can preserve a free society: namely, the strict prevention of all coercion except in the enforcement of general abstract rules equally applicable to all.

Life is better when we imagine it

Past: Jesus saved us from the penalty of sin. Present: He saves us from the power of sin. Future: He will save us from the presence of sin.

Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's means.

In this new world economy, national boundaries are increasingly becoming obsolete.

Your life is infinite. You are as old as these mountains and you will remain for ever.