No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.
It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.
All children are born with stars in their eyes, and they are curious. It is important for teachers to be careful not to kill this curiosity. A lot can go wrong. Children can be teased, even by teachers.
The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.
The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants running around in donkey's clothes.
I have been playing games since I was about 6, and they've always been a big hobby of mine.
I went to karate classes where it was basically a line-up of hulking man, hulking man, small nine-year-old girl, hulking man, hulking man.
The laws are still very unclear. Cells are still taken from people without consent - a lot of people don't realize it.
In normal times, investors should pay more attention to the credit markets because it's the energy by which everything is driven. It's the oil in the engine.
They know that the column resonates in the community. They know that people like it, and yet they don't have room for one column once week that consistently got it right.
The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that.
What happened to the Bush Administration regarding terrorism is that they regarded it as a secondary issue, and associated with Clinton. One of those Clinton issues.
22 million new jobs under President Clinton. 3 million lost under Bush.
The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
I wouldn't mind someone lobbing hand grenades at me, but having to reset the timer on the video recorder puts me into a blood-spitting frenzy.
I have been photographing people dancing for 20 or 30 years now, and I think I will eventually do a book of dancing photos.
I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera.
We live in a homogenized world, where it's hard to get excited when everything is slick and professional. The interesting things are the dull things.
I like to keep in touch with younger photographers. It's important that a younger generation comes up and questions the assumptions made by old farts like me.
Most of us, when we go out with a camera in our own country, try to find exotic subject matter to photograph.
In New York, you have the street; in the U.K., we have the beach. I end up being like a migrating bird, being attracted to it.
