"Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general - a desire to preserve oneself."

“That's the way to live - around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.”

“For each of us has a perch on the tree. After we are gone, that perch is marked by a notch, permanent, yes, but with its edges muting over time, assuming the tree is ever growing. Years from now someone can see that you were here, or there, and although you had little conception or care for the wider branching, in the next life there might be a sigh of wonder at how quietly flourishing it all was, if never majestic.”

“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”

Source : "Happy 80th, Gloria Steinem" by Kathleen McCartney, www.cnn.com. March 25, 2014.

“When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.”

“Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.”

“I have been loved, Edward told the stars. So? said the stars. What difference does that make when you are all alone now?”

“Over futile odds, and laughed at by the gods And now the final frame. Love is a losing game.”

“It is time to put more cops on the beat and remove our most violent repeat offenders from our neighborhood streets.”

Source : "Bill Schuette, Michigan Attorney General, Calls For 1,000 More Police Officers". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2012.