"Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever"

“Only I can turn this country around.”

“As an emerging photojournalist in the early 70s, my focus was on trying to create stories for magazines to the exclusion of almost everything else. I wish someone had told me then that the most personally important pictures you’ll ever make are those about you and your life.  I’m glad I had the chance to work for some great magazines, but I really miss those little everyday images, the ones that take place in and around your own life, which will never make the news.  Don’t sell yourself short: photograph your own life, not just everyone else’s.”

“I like practicing law.”

“No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.”

“It's unfortunate that the country of immigrants has turned its back on immigrants. The atmosphere after 9/11 is toxic.”

Source : "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

“The bodybuilding world has lost one of its greatest legends. I had a chance to speak with Steve Michalik a year ago at The Upper State Bodybuilding competition. We laughed and shared our personal opinions about bodybuilding [today's scene and how it was in the past]. Steve, we'll miss you. R.I.P.”

“I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin. I want.”

“There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.”