To go and photograph an airbase is not only to photograph something but it is to insist on one’s right to photograph. You’re flexing that right.

Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture.

I really do think of them as post-minimalist sculptures, inspired in large part by some very early spacecraft that NASA built.

Injustice drives me crazy! It really upsets me when I see politicians lying.

Perhaps someday in the distant future, dinosaurs may once again rule the Earth. If they ever learn to watch the stars, then maybe they will find our ruins in the sky.

When you have an economically unequal society, you end up with huge swaths of society that are disposable, basically.

I'm pretty cynical about the future, but I feel like that's not an ethical position for me to take. It's not okay for me to behave as if I'm cynical about the future. Even if I am.

Blood is thicker than water, I know, but it's unnatural stuff to drink so much of. (“The Wife Of Ted Wickham”)

God produced great writing, a matter of first importance to a man like Lincoln, ever impressed with the nature of cause and forces.

To fully understand how utterly amazing we really are we must first understand all of the things about us that are not, and then we must make our habitation where they are not.

Money is a very important tool to make a big difference in people's life. It is positive or negative depending on the values.

If you've got a stick hitting a drum and you're programming it on a computer, it's so much more interesting than a sample playing back - it's something in the air, that's the magical ingredient.

Being a teenager and figuring out who you are is hard enough without someone attacking you.

Here at home, for goodness's sakes, we have to finally pass a law prohibiting people on the terrorist watch list from being able to buy a gun in the United States of America.

What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged values depend on it.

I really enjoy working on adaptations.

There is nothing wrong with a woman welcoming all men's advances as long as they are in cash