I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to fill in.

If you want to be a creative person, then you’re gonna have to be creative in how you put your career together. There isn’t a path. Part of the creativity is making your path.

I fell in love with the process of taking pictures, with wandering around finding things. To me it feels like a kind of performance. The picture is a document of that performance.

The people that I photographed allowed me to photograph them because they didn't want to be alone, and the truth is I didn't want to be alone making the pictures.

Photography is a very lonely medium. There’s a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And that’s why I’m a photographer.

I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film.

[Photography is] very related to poetry. It's suggestive and fragmentary and unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It's as much about what you leave out as what you put in.

For me, the act of photography is all about discovery and finding new things.

For me, photography is as much about the way I respond to the subject as it is about the subject itself.

Nobody really wants to be alone. People need people.

Photography, for me, is a lot like web surfing in real life.

Death is only as strong as you believe it to be.

Hackers rarely have full knowledge of the technology stack of a target.

A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.

When you know and respect your Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong.

Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

Things don't change, only the way you look at them.

There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, to look back to when we were children.

"This - is now my way - where is yours"? Thus did I answer those who asked me "the way". For the way - it does not exist!

If I've grown as an artist, it will be represented in the art. There's no need to explain it.

President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.