All alone - shorn of context, without captions - a photograph is neither true nor false.... For truth, properly considered, is about the relationship between language and the world, not about photographs and the world.

There is only one direction. (Down.) There is only one color. (Black.) And there is only one number (Zero.)

The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.

Nothing is so obvious that it's obvious.

I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.

What is it that angers us?... We have been tricked. In essence, we have been lied to. The problem is not that the photograph has been manipulated, but that we have been manipulated by the photograph.

I actually felt diminished by watching [Donald Trump's]. If this is what discourse has become in America, who even wants to know about it? It's just too demoralizing and unsettling.