All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.

To meet God or Medusa face to face, even if it means risking everything human in myself. I dream of a hard and brutal mysticism in which the naked self merges with the nonhuman world and yet somehow survives still intact individual, separate. Paradox and bedrock.

Humility is a virtue when you have no other.

I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.

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.

To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.