Find the one thing you’re good at and FOCUS on it.

If I had to pick a single word to describe what my pictures are all about, I would say 'secrets.' As a child I always had a secret world and my favorite book was “A Secret Garden.

Have the utmost respect for your subjects. Love them.

I think of my work as very polarizing; either people really do like it and are touched by it or they really don't get it at all. It's not accessible to all people at the same level.

Our best pictures happen by grace.

I would never censor something to please someone. I don't play games.

I love feeling that I am opening new worlds for people who don't have time to investigate these things themselves.

The people I work with, the people I photograph, become a kind of family for me.

I never chased after any particular school, never really had mentors; I really just did the work that was true to me.

I have the same themes over and over again. How I'm saying it keeps changing or growing.

[Being unique] gives so much privilege to people who can make it, rather than having some moral and aesthetic discussions.

The love for our native land strengthens our individual and national character.

Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold. She's a bird in a gilded cage.

As of now, string theorists have no explanation of why there are three large dimensions as well as time, and the other dimensions are microscopic. Proposals about that have been all over the map.

What I need more in my culture and in my life right now is hope, and so I tend to write to that. I'll always end up bending more toward optimism.

I love the idea that people are listening to "Tales" during all types of activities. Knitting in their favorite chair, rock climbing, sky diving, driving at night.

Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.

They did not know her-gods are hard for mortals to recognize.

The best pleasures of this world are not quite true.

I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.