However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.

Everyone in California is from somewhere else.

Writes have an island, a center of refuge, within themselves. It is the mind's anchorage, the soul's Great Good Place.

The imagination made us human, but being human, becoming more human, is a greater burden than we imagined. We have no choice but to imagine ourselves more human than we are.

I prefer a taken to a made photograph.

The past is useless. That explains why it is past.

However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.