Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us.

There is a kind of victory in good work no matter how humble.

If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil.

I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.

I got very keen on biography because I wanted to change it. I wanted to stretch the form. I think of it as a way of capturing souls.

The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.

'Kiss Me.' That's my 'Twilight' tune, a song you'd have on the 'Twilight' soundtrack.

The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture.

Compassion is not feeling sorry for others. It's not soft. It requires an intellectual effort.

There's no beauty that you could perceive or create if it were not already within you.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.