“It's a fairly accurate portrait of me at eighteen, minus a few quirks like reckless driving and eating binges. It's accurate but it isn't profound.”

“The fact that this was a fairly accurate portrait of my own mother is a quick indicator of how difficult it once was for me to tell the difference between myself and the powerful woman who had raised me.”

“It is the nature of languages that a pretty translation is not accurate, and an accurate translation finds its own beauty without help.”

“A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. ”

“A frenzy of activity that had mostly led him in circles: wasn't that a fairly accurate description of lust?”

“Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.”