When a photographer chooses a subject, he or she is making a claim on the interest and attention of future viewers, a prediction about what will be thought to have been important.

Whatever the aspect, I've tried to provide clear witness to what I've found, to resonate well enough with the harmonics of the place that the tuning can be felt in the pictures.

Photography, too, reduces the world to strips and rectangles; photographers scrutinize the surfaces of reality in hope of unlocking the potential for significance that is latent within them.

Love does these three things effectively: multiplies joy, divides trouble, subtracts grief, and adds peace.

I can only imagine that future generations will consider us to have been barbaric for our intolerance of differences.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Life is never that clean, " he assures her. "Neither is magic.

A happy life is made up of little things-a gift sent a letter written a call made a recommendation given transportation provided a cake made a book lent a check sent.

We love our planet Earth. We should - it is our home, and there's no place like home. There can't ever be a better place than Earth.

Today, shooting wars are won or lost before they start. If they are fought at all, they would be fought principally to confirm which side had won at the outset.

I wanted to go to the end of photography.

The duty of an Opposition is to oppose.

I had no regrets when I did it, I have even less regret now because I can't imagine staying on the West Wing show and then, six weeks later, Aaron Sorkin leaving.