Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

An American in London...cannot but be impressed and charmed by the city. The momumentality of Washington, the thriving business of New York, the antique intimacy of Boston, plus a certain spacious and open feeling reminiscent of Denver and San Francisco-all these he finds combined for his pleasure.

As souls must cry when they awaken in tiny babies and find themselves far from heaven

Without rain, there would be no life.

It's not up to us what we learn, but merely whether we learn through joy or through pain.

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.