A photograph is a moment when you press the button. It will never come back.

One of these days, I'm going to publish a book of all the pictures I did not take.

What counts is putting the intensity that you yourself have experienced into the picture. Otherwise it is just a document.

To some extent, the cult surrounding black-and-white photography is based on nostalgia.

On digital photography: It's fantastic, but it's not a freebie for anything. You still have to have this (he points to his eyes), and this (points to his heart), and feet.

A digital camera has to be kept in check like a racehorse.

I never thought I would become a photographer.

I think that's the strength of photography - to decide the decisive moment, to click in the moment to come up with a picture that never comes back again.

Looking back, I didn't have the patience to work in fashion. I like women so much, but I was never qualified to torture them in photo shoots. You have to be really tough and brutal.

Reading leads to good conduct

It was hard to know what to make of the brothers' dark infatuation with death. It was strange, wildly anomalous in sun-baked Southern California, where the light is so bright it bleaches the shadows.

If it isn't broken don't try to fix it

I wasn't brought up to be dazzled by money or fame.

If God had wanted me to lose weight he would have made sure there was creamed spinach for dessert.

The worst affected from corruption is the common man.

Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you.

In comparison, there's no comparison.

There is nothing as strong as tenderness, And nothing as tender as true strength.

Hitler was the fate of Germany and this fate could not be stayed.