I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.

To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.

You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.

The beauty of a woman is that no two are the same. They are all different. It follows then that to be successful as a lover, you cannot make love to any two in the same way.

The Bible talks a lot about thankfulness, and I'm more thankful than I ever was. I try to concentrate on the hundreds of things that go right in a day, instead of the three or four that go wrong.

I love music, especially classical like Verdi; it's a great way to relax.

Educating a child won't be difficult if you get through to the parent.

I discovered John Fante when I was 17 years old - strangely, not through Charles Bukowski, but through William Saroyan, who was his drinking buddy.

I haven't been in politics too long so that's a good thing.

In 1998, I was trained by the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army ] in London how to pretend to be a geologist.

We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.

Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.