"I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don't want to die humiliated or deceived."

“Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live with it as one of the hazards of his profession.”

Source : moss hart (1959). “act one”

“I feel like I don't watch that many shows with death.”

“I believe he [Saddam Hussein] wants a better relationship with America.”

“My mother said that when I was young I was constantly saying, Look at this - Look at that. I think that taking pictures must be my way of asking people to Look at this - Look at that. If my photographs make the viewer feel what I did when I first took them - Isn't this funny... terrible... moving... beautiful? - then I've accomplished my purpose.”

“I'm not a representative of the military establishment. I came in with the Reagan Administration in 1981 as a presidential appointee.”

Source : "Ideology of the Reagan Administration". WGBH Educational Foundation Interview, lsopenvault01.wgbh.org. November 24, 1987.

“When I make my work, I am making what I hope to be something functional - a space for individual contemplation and reflection. I want my art to be useful.”

“Pick your role models wisely, find out what they did and do it.”

“There is a fountain inside you. Don't walk around with an empty bucket.”