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“I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of portraiture because it deals exclusively with appearances. I've never believed people are what they look like and think it's impossible to really know what people are.”
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“I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.”
Source : Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.73, A&C Black
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“I have tried to bring about better communication between people. I believe that humanitarian photography is like economics. Economy is a kind of sociology, as is documentary photography.”
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“I'm a New Yorker, you know.”
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“If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all.”
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“I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serious. You cannot have a bumper crop in apples without the value or the price of each apple falling. The Fed has had the largest increase in the monetary base in the history of the U.S., from colonial times to the present, times ten.”
Source : "Journal Editorial Report" with Paul Gigot, www.foxnews.com. June 12, 2010. 
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“Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.”
Source : "Engineering Food for All". www.nytimes.com. August 18, 2011.
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“Instead of taking full advantage of having eight women at once, I spent all my time trying to find a real girlfriend.”
