There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world

[Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by an artist capable of seizing it. (1928)

When you have a taste for exceptional people, you always end up meeting them everywhere.

It's not that [writers] are pompous jerks. We are insecure. We feel like we're fading away in this vast sea of scriveners.

Stop inviting walls into wide open spaces.

I understand that that's the theory of the case for [Donald] Trump supporters and it's what Donald Trump says, and it's possible that that is actually the case.

We cannot get grace from gadgets.

There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.

When you're turning the crankset, you're riding the bike. When you're coasting, you're just along for the ride.

The minute your child is born, your life is changed forever. I think I've become so aware of how important balance is in life.

Intellectual capital will always trump financial capital.

Rich people are bigger than their problems. Poor people are smaller than their problems.

Gently to hear, kindly to judge.