"When there's a lot of it around, you never want it very much."

-- Peg Bracken

“We all expect photographs to be a picture of something. We assume that the photographer observed a place, a person, an event in the world, and wants to record it, point at itâ€¦The problem with my work is that these images are really not of anything in that sense, they register only that which is incidental and peripheral to the implied it.”
“Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do.”
“Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.”
“Who does not recall school at least in part as endless dreary hours of boredom punctuated by moments of high anxiety?”
“I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.”
“I looked at all friends, and did not find a better friend than safeguarding the tongue. I thought about all dresses, but did not find a better dress than piety. I thought about all types of wealth, but did not find a better wealth than contentment in little. I thought of all types of good deeds, but did not find a better deed than offering good advice. I looked at all types of sustenance, but did not find a better sustenance than patience.”
“At times when I didn't have records out, the press has really kept me out there. My bad reputation has done wonderful things for me!”
“Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.”

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