The sounds she heard bouncing off the walls around her were those of defeat.

She once again thought about how badly she wanted to crawl back beneath the mound of already cooling blankets that covered her bed like an inviting nest.

Jules stood up and stretched gracelessly. “Let’s hurry up and pay before she”-she indicated Claire with a flick of her thumb-“sees something shiny and we lose her again.

We always look for operators with a combination of guts, passion and genius.

I'm usually pretty good about meeting people. I try to remember they are human, too!

I think the West is in a low point we haven't seen since the 1930s.

For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film...if, later, the reality means something to someone else, so much the better.

In West Virginia, we're all family. We know how firefighters and policemen honor their own and we feel our miners deserve to be honored in a similar way.

Someone doesn't think immediately, "I want to be a lobbyist."

My father was a businessman. We had discussions about honesty and dishonesty.

The motivation to me is to make money and not be dependent upon the shallow pool called the entertainment world or the rap world or the hip-hop world.

The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the here and now.

Technology has changed everything.