As a non-Catholic, and since I was a child, I have been obsessed with the ritual and the beauty of Catholic art. I look at Renaissance art all the time.

I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.

My desire is to preserve the sense of people’s lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them. I want the people in my pictures to stare back.

For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody - it's a caress… I think that you can actually give people access to their own soul.

I always thought if I photographed anyone or anything enough, I would never lose the person, I would never lose the memory, I would never lose the place. But the pictures show me how much I've lost.

Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.

I knew from a very early age, that what I saw on tv had nothing to do with real life. So I wanted to make a record of real life. That included having a camera with me at all times.

I just get inspired to take a picture by the beauty and vulnerability of my friends.

My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them.

I think the wrong things are kept private

My work shows the beauty in so many different kinds of people because I never photograph anyone who I don't think is beautiful. I never take an intentionally mean picture.

The only thing that will ever make me fall in love is: if I fall in love.

The truth is no one should hold you at a higher standard than yourself

I love my family because they are always there for me even during my fragile moments.

P71- if i do not love the world if i do not love life if i do not love people i cannot enter into dialogue.

Look deep into my soul than what stretches the fabric of my clothes

The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.

But if I could go back in time, I wouldn't do a single thing differently. What if all those things I did were the things that got me here?

Finally my competitive spirit has come alive and I'm winning again.

The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling.

We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.