“A collection of errors does not make a truth: quality cannot stem from quantity – a value is not a weight.”

The reasons of the majority cannot be taken as good reasons.

The highest measure of democracy is neither the ‘extent of freedom’ nor the ‘extent of equality’, but rather the highest measure of participation.

Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up.

Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.

Beware the god who cannot laugh.

She was only a collection of flaws and she was beautiful.

You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You’re not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You’re not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.

When a group of people get together, it’s collective power. You know that you’re doing it for the good.

I’m in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.

The “we” of your divine birthright – the one that is aware of its place as part of the collective whole – knows that it is your sacred obligation to shine your brightest light, not just in your moments of glory but each day.

I’ve enjoyed photography, ever since I was a teenager, and I’m still at it. I’ve had shows in various cities, around the country, and I have a number of pieces in permanent collections in museums that I’m very proud of.

I’m touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful – collecting these shards of spirituality – that we may be helping to bring about a healing.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.