"I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time."

“Victory [over homophobia] may require five or maybe 20 years. Yet I have no doubt that "don't ask, don't tell" and same-sex adoption bans will be as unspeakable and inexplicable to my grandchildren as counting a slave as three-fifths of a human being.”

Source : "Reparations for Gay Americans". The Detroit Free Press, April 07, 2009.

“Life can change in the blink of an eye. All you have is right now. So don’t ever put off telling someone how you feel about them, don’t assume that they know, because they might not and it might be too late.”

Source : Alexandra Potter (2010). “You're the One that I don't want”, p.223, Hachette UK

“It seems to me that if Mr. Obama wins the presidential election, then Messrs. Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers and Pfleger will gain power for their need to demoralize this country and help create a socialist America.”

“The masculine/feminine look fascinates me. It is not only an issue of empowering women, but I think the shapes look great.”

“To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.”

“I wish I were a character actor. Of course, if I played hockey without a mask, I could become one”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so.”

Source : Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

“There was no theater program or anything where I'm from. So junior year in high school I started the theater program.”