"People don't seem to have a problem with a romanticized New York, in fact that's almost all they ever do, in some sense, is romanticize that place. Los Angeles deserves the same courtesy."

“I'm fighting myself every day to get better.”

“Use design as a framework to bring order out of chaos.”

“The precision of hisskill places his work beyond the tentative and the experimental stage. He is continually searching and exploring both himself and his surroundings. and in this exploration of the realm of places, people and things, contrasts and relationships, Callahan is no respecter of conventional technical formula or code. His delicate sense of pattern is an integral part of his photography and not a thing by itself.”

“I have devoted myself to architecture as a sublime act of poetic imagination. Consequently, I am only a symbol for all those who have been touched by beauty. The words Beauty, Inspiration, Magic, Spellbound, Enchantment, as well as the concepts of Serenity, Silence, Intimacy and Amazement, all these have nestled in my soul. Though I am fully aware that I have not done them complete justice in my work, they have never ceased to be my guiding lights.”

“There are no facts, only stories.”

Source : "This much I know". Interview with Harvey McGavin, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2004.

“I'd love to spit some Beechnut in that dude's eye and shoot him with my ole forty-five.”

Source : Song: A Countryboy Can Survive

“She wonders if you can feel nostalgic for something before it's in the past, she wonders if perhaps her vocabulary is too small or if her chemical intake has corroded it and the music goes doowoah doowoah.”

Source : Jon McGregor (2014). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.”