Pastoral Resources

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.

We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.

For the same reason we don't allow kids to buy pornography, for the same reason we don't allow kids to buy cigarettes, for the same reason we don't allow kids to buy alcohol, we shouldn't allow them to go to stores and buy video games.

I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.

I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.

When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.

Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.

So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.

One camp accepts the Court's limits on contributions but urges the reinstatement of spending caps - even if this requires a constitutional amendment subjecting political speech, if not pornography, to government regulation.

I just love the world of photography.

I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style.

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind.