"And then, in that regal silence, finally - I began to meditate on (and with) God."

“I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit.”

Source : Dorothea Lange, Keith F. Davis, Kelle A. Botkin (1995). “The photographs of Dorothea Lange”, Harry N. Abrams

“When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.”

“Women, in general, will find it difficult to turn from a man and stop demanding that he meets their needs, provides security, and protects their identity, and return to me. Men, in general, find it very hard to turn from the works of their hands, their own quests for power and security and significance, and turn to me.”

“My one failing as an artist is that I depend on reference material to perhaps a greater extent than I should. Delacroix said that if you can draw a man falling out of a window and have the drawing finished before he hits the ground then you're a real artist. I wasn't that kind of artist.”

Source : Source: classic.esquire.com

“Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.”

“If multiculturalism succeeds in making us a nation of independently empowered tribes, each tribe will be deprived of the comfort of victimhood and be forced to confront human limitation for what it is: a fixture of life.”

Source : Jonathan Franzen (2007). “How to Be Alone: Essays”, p.96, Macmillan

“Any time a secret group usurps the collective will of the people, it’s wrong. Period.”

“I feel like a nude little piece of white meat out here.”