Where you point the camera is the question and the picture you get is the answer to decipher.

I'm not a believer in the future. The most interesting things are always behind us. I look at everything as archaeology.

My belief is that you should take stills of what doesn't seem to move, and take movies or videos of [what] does.

I would say that the emblematic photographic image is a picture from inside a room looking out. I think this defines photography. It's the metaphor for the notion of first sight. What one saw first.

Fear if allowed free rein would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men for whom only death could bring release.

The Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit. To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.

Cantonese will eat anything in the sky but airplanes, anything in the sea but submarines, and anything with four legs but the table.

That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.

I'm either a mutant or a cripple, and I refuse to be a cripple. People pity cripples, but they're afraid of mutants [...] Fear implies respect.

I think that if poetry is not a personal act, it's a pamphlet.

Feminism is ridiculous. Feminists are silly idealists who want to be on top. There is no real equality in sexual relationships - someone always wins.

I think there's a kind of elegance to it, to work within that framework where what you don't see is often more enticing.

Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same.

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.