Unlike the older, more humanly shaped arts, which begin with a seed and accumulate their form organically, photography clips its substance out of an actual continuum.

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded credulity of earlier ages: Let us walk through the door.

All men are mortal, and therefore all men are losers; our profoundest loyalty goes out to the failed.

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.