There's something political about creating a world that you want to exist.

It seemed clear to me early on that one of the things a photograph could do was make a reality, and I wanted to do that. I always think of looking inside an Easter egg and seeing a perfect world.

There's this way that photography is always about going out searching. I'm not the kind of a photographer who can photograph my home.

We were really poor when I was growing up; my parents, both artists, were bohemians. Life was a desperate struggle, but in service of a high ideal, which is exactly what my photographs are about.

She held the book in her hands, feeling a sense of awe, and lightly ran a finger over its cover as if it contained sacred writings.

Of all America’s natural resources, its richest is an inexhaustible vein of irony.

Technology does not always rhyme with perfection and reliability. Far from it in reality!

It [further education] is most essential,otherwise I would not have educated my sons. I learnt the hard way.Maybe if I had some education my success and growth would have been quicker.

Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.

I would do anything to keep looking the job. I think you make an extra effort if you're on show.

I do suspect my star ratings average too high. But, of course, star ratings are ridiculous. I'm stuck with them.

The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves.

The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life.

The garden, historically, is the place where all the senses are exploited. Not just the eye, but the ear - with water, with birds. And there is texture, too, in plants you long to touch.