She was also an adult, and when adults fight children, adults always win.

I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.

It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.

I don't know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn't know then I can't put into words.

I love making things. I love building things. I love the idea that something's in the world that wasn't there before.

This is how you can tell a real photographer: mostly, a real photographer does not say 'I wish I had my camera on me right now'. Instead a real photographer pulls out her camera and takes the photograph.

This is the only country in the world, that worries about what it is. The rest of them know what they are. No one ever needs to go searching for the heart of Norway. Or looks for the soul of Mozambique. They know what they are.