No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.
At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.
I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock.
Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons. They're like the people who become successful and then don't want to be reminded of the old neighborhood.
We [in USA] have people honestly believing that, if a president calls a war, you have to shut up and sing. That is not the nation my mother raised me to pledge my allegiance to. We should speak out. We sent thousands of Americans to foreign battlefields to protect our way of life, which includes free speech. If you're not going to use it, it's already lost. We'll find a Mussolini who will tell us what's good for us.
Miss Child is never bashful with butter.
A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.
But I did not always know just what it was I wanted to photograph. I believe it is important for a photographer to discover this, for unless he finds what it is that excites him, what it is that calls forth at once an emotional response, he is unlikely to achieve his best work.
It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.
Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.
For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.