Over the years a photo-mania developed. At times, photographic images have signaled a way forward and gotten me out of a bind.

Monsters exist because we create them, through war and violence, and distortion, and the way we handle people and so on.

I think of myself as a kind of reporter; I report on the nature of certain events. I think of art as a report on civilization at a certain time.

Artists are part of the information process... Visual history is important in providing a record of what is going on - levels of intention, levels of confidence, levels of aggression or control.

When you don’t understand how to make a good use of something, you will abuse that thing.

The hallmark of great dreams is not their possibility but their impossibility, and the fact that it is the very notion of the ‘impossible’ that inspires us to go and accomplish them anyway.

The true marriage movie involving in-laws and children is a story about how marriage is directly affected by external characters who impact the central relationship in various ways.

He who does anything because it is the custom makes no choice.

There was a time when my whole life was in chaos, really, and I didn't help myself sort it out. But one day I came to my senses, and I think I was lucky because a lot of people don't.

I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.

If many people love me, then I must be important.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

I'm in a hard place now. A very silent place. And I'm struggling to either accept this or drag myself out of it.

And step by step You'll lead me / And I will follow You all of my days.