After a few days [in Iceland] I tried to take a photograph. But with my attempt to distinguish the first shot, the place disappeared on me.... I hadn't been in Iceland long enough to simply be there.

As is often said of photography, this photograph is a frozen moment. A frozen moment is not a moment at all.

You use metaphor to make yourself feel at home in the world. You use metaphor to extinguish the unknown. The problem is the unknown is where I want to be.

Usually, the subject matter of the image is not the subject of the work.

A non-analogue image has an extremely compressed life. It starts as this and, in increasingly short time spans, becomes that.

Your opinion should be based on what you see with your own eyes, hear with your own ears & feel with your own heart.

There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.

You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.

Some people have their marriages annulled, which means they never existed. Boy, talk about denial! What do you say when people see your wedding album? 'Oh that was just some play I was in.

You will have to put aside some things in your life, habits, ideas, ways of seeing life. You will have to learn new things, and then new things and then new things - forever.

No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a Chappell hard by.

I've liked women but I've never felt I wanted to give up my life completely. I've never wanted to go to bed with anybody.

One of the goals of a spiritual practice is self-awareness, and one of the best tools of self-awareness is simple emotional vulnerability.

I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be.

But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid - that had to mean something.