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

Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead?

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.

Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more.

My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due.

Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.