A meaningful conceptual basis is always more important than vivid photographs, and vice versa.

Photography has a natural affinity for the strategies of surrealism - the exaltation of chance and eros, the exploration of obsession and the release of the unconscious.

Time past cannot be stopped, saved, or regained. But a photograph allows you to borrow it.

Photography seems to fix, but this is an illusion created by our short lives. A photograph is merely a note held for 200 years.

Images are the currency of our age, but it's a toss-up whether live in a time of abundance or debasement.

To teach consequential photography, don't bother with Photoshop or f-stops. Create a craving for images.

If you scratch through the deceitful artifice of contemporary photography, you'll find the real artifice underneath.

Enduring happiness only comes when you share your happiness with others.

Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise

To appreciate nonsense you must first acquire wisdom, then compromise the two; only then will the fool understand you, and believe himself to be wise.

It's easy to write for God and about God, because what a thrill to remind the church that the Holy Spirit of God is in you. What a rush! What an amazing blessing!

I'm always weeping at something or other.

I was so grateful to be independent of the academic establishment. I thought, how awful it would be to have my future hinge on such people and such decisions.

All I've ever wanted to do was be a great dad, and yet there's no stopping this existential mirror that's held up to yourself when you're about to have a kid.

Do that which you fear to do, and the fear will die.

There are a lot of people who say that bombing cannot win the war. My reply to that is that it has never been tried. . . and we shall see.

The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.