I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I understand now that this was a minority point of view.

The photobook occupies that deep area between the novel and the film.

I used photography to distance myself from a world that I loathed and was powerless to improve.

I wanted [my photography] to appear as though the camera was seeing by itself.

It might be more useful, if not necessarily more true, to think of photography as a narrow, deep area between the novel and film.

The ideal photographic document would appear to be without author or art.

But as I have noticed on more than one occaision, life itself is unfair, and there is no complaint department, so we might as well accept things the way they happen, clean up the mess, and move on.

You need to decide to stop letting their crazy box you in.

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

I'm from Long Island. Strong Island.

I think maybe it is better to believe than not to believe. But I couldn't tell you why.

Sometimes, you get portrayed the way you don't want to be portrayed.

In some ways you become who you really are, if you work hard enough on who you wish to be.

Do not think of yourself as the body, but as the joyous consciousness and immortal life behind it.

There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

I believe in myself and in Saint Therese.