No human being, particularly a young, attractive woman, is so alone that there is no one to miss her when she disappears.

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession

The crazy game of pilling stones was also in you and your friends’ marvelous innovation. And how really hard you would hit the phony big guy who you hated like anything.

Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.

Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.

We should refrain from anything that seems to be a final judgment of any person...the Lord alone has the capacity to judge...And, in all of this we must remember the command to forgive.

What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song.

The success I've achieved comes to me from God

The signore...wishes her to begin at the beginning.

You have to bring to the photograph a prejudice about something, and I'm prejudiced against farmers who tie dead animals on fences. Therefore, I can make a meaningful photograph.

Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.