One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.

Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.

Salome had but seven veils; the artist has a thousand.

War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.

Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.

Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.

How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?