“Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “...There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.”

“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.”

“A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.”

“Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake of being challenged, and for the sake of being expressive, to offer something to someone else, to learn what we are capable of.”

“Expose yourself," they said. "Let us see your deepest and your darkest."My deepest and my darkest? What are you, my gynecologist?”

“My children have always existed at the deepest center of me, right there in the heart/hearth, but I struggled with the powerful demands of motherhood, chafing sometimes at the way they pulled me away from my separate life, not knowing how to balance them with my unwieldy need for solitude and creative expression.”