Only sometimes I try to think about it in context. When I think about the context of, "Oh, I'm this or that," in this society, that's one of the terms.

Well, I talk about one moment in the book, but I don't know if that's my moment of discovery. It was a moment. In the book, I talk about how I started shooting, how I became a photographer.

It was a fortunate moment in history that I happened to be in. There was a confluence of the internet and all this other stuff that I was able to capitalize on.

Yeah, it's just a lame term. I wish it was "movie star." That's a much better term than celebrity.

But when I was a kid, I would look at the paper next to the phone and I would think to myself, "I want to do that." So I started doing that. [doodling]

As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others 'you failed,' you didn't fail.

I think when we get to a place that this is not the story, that everyone's story is a part of the story, then we can say this has changed. Until then, these are steps to change if they're consistent.

There's no greater challenge and there is no greater honor than to be in public service.

I'm not aware of having a creepy laugh, but apparently I do.

There is a need for everyone's brain to be imprinted with more self-enhancing impulses: the impulse to peace over violence, love over fear, compassion over selfishness.

The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.

The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public's confidence in corporate America.

I was told that Federalist Society conventions were intellectually serious, courteous, and open to various points of view, and that has certainly been my experience.

Noooo, there’s no way I, a mere handsome and sexy shopkeeper, could possibly have bankai!

Democracy is a process, not a static condition. It is becoming, rather than being. It can be easily lost, but is never finally won.