Our conviction that we are free to choose what we make of a photograph hides the complicity to which we are recruited in the very act of looking.

The wholeness, coherence, identity, which we attribute to the depicted scene [in a photograph] is a projection, a refusal of an impoverished reality in favour of an imagined plenitude.

The only pertinent political question in relation to an identity [or its photograph] is not Is it really coherent? but What does it actually achieve?

Looking is not indifferent. There can never be any question of 'just looking'.

Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.

Live your life, not wasting it on minor things of life, but rather investing it in the best possible ways

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care then the happiest individual... would be I think an American cow.

Becoming internally empowered shifts a person's center of gravity from external to internal- a mark of spiritual passage.

Look, how come he showed up now? When you have other fairies in the woods? And does that sound crazy when you say it out loud, or what?

Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.

Prayer is so mighty an instrument that no one ever thoroughly mastered all its keys. They sweep along the infinite scale of man's wants and God's goodness.

Christ comes with kingly power, to rescue sinners, as a prey from the mouth of the terrible one.

The last thing a young woman needs is another picture of a sexy pop star writhing in sand, covered in grease, touching herself.

But it could be that we, as early as spring, will need to embark on a new policy in order to save one of the cornerstones of European politics: personal freedom of movement.