Subjectivity is my middle name, a trick memory is my pack mule, and self-contradiction is my trusty old jackknife.

Like a four-sided porch I'm open to all winds.

I've always assumed it to be an absolute requirement for being a writer: to find all emotions and the sources of all behaviors somewhere within yourself.

Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land

I always give money to a sidewalk con if the story is a good one, even if I don't believe a word of it. Art deserves to get paid.

Unlike a bow and arrow, a camera by its nature ensures that some kind of target will always be hit, if not necessarily the intended target nor in the intended way.

New York has no truck with the past. It expels its dead.

I realize that books are not the entire world, even if they sometimes seem to contain it. But I need the stupid things.

I realised that although I was fascinated with America, its history and culture, I was not interested in becoming American.

I try to take pictures on their own terms, considering the historical and social context from which they emerge.

When I was a child I did engage in an arduous struggle to pass: learning English, getting rid of my accent, becoming conversant with the culture in all its large and small aspects.

Pride is not the opposite of shame, but it's source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.

If life and youth were not immune to the corrosive effects of time, why should love be any different?

The ego is never satisfied. So, if you're not satisfied with what you have right now, consider what is driving you.

This is a sport where you get your ego checked on a regular basis, whether it's in the cage or it's at practice.

Humble birth did not retard his genius, nor high place corrupt his soul.

History is the zoology of the human race.

Justice is God's control over the order of the universe. Mercy is God's power even over the order of the universe.

If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it.

Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.

I don't have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.