"I live a lonely photographic life here in Santa Fe. I do see Eliot Porter occasionally, and Ansel storms through every so often, otherwise I plug along in my old fashioned way."

“Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.”

“I love the Olympics. I love the idea of something happening every four years. I've always had love for Bulgaria, and I've always been a Bulgarian. That's also really part of why I want to play it. I know it's tough for the calendar, but at the same time, it's the Olympics.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.”

“True elegance is for me the manifestation of an independent mind.”

Source : Isabella Rossellini (1997). “Some of Me”, Random House Incorporated

“Love is the grounding of our existence as humans and is the basic emotioning in our systemic identity as human beings.”

Source : "Biology of love". 1996.

“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.”

“She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.”

“What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who'd rather write a good story.”

Source : "Talk With Jim Bishop" by Lewis Nichols, www.nytimes.com. February 6, 1955.