I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow.

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.

The act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being looked at than how.

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.

If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon?

Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,' she says. 'Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always collects in the long run.

Craziness was considered funny, like all other things that were in reality frightening and profoundly shameful.