“I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.”

It is not the position, but the disposition.

A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.

All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.

I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.

My library is an archive of longings.

In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.

How boring just to be a body.

No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.

It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Photographers are always imposing.

I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.

And only weaklings who lack courage and the power to feel they’re right when the whole world says they’re wrong, ever lose.

We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.

Courage, ne’er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and foe!

The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.