"You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need."

“And one has to remember that no photography can pretend to show the truth. A picture only shows a given situation under a very specific perspective, consciously or not, openly or not, relevantly or not. Photographers have to accept they can just convey fragments of illusory realities and relate their own intimate experience of the world. In this process of fictionalising an unreachable truth, it's up to them to impose their doubts about any photographic truth, or accept being impotent pawns in the mediatic game.”

“If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you.”

Source : Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.6, The New Press

“I remember coming to this college in the 1960s as a new legislator when a road divided the campus - and it was not fully paved at that - and no wall defined the campus from the highway.”

“If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience.”

“Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.”

Source : Jonathan Ames (2015). “Wake Up, Sir!”, p.204, Pushkin Press

“Men are not rich or poor according to what they possess but to what they desire. The only rich man is he that with content enjoys a competence.”

“I don't watch trailers, I like to go into every movie fresh.”

Source : "Behn Zeitlin, ‘Beasts Of The Southern Wild’ Director, Explains Why He Pitched His Film As ‘A League Of Their Own’". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 29, 2012.

“Your first instinct when you see a man on the ground is to go down on him.”