I create situations that do not exist. I seek the truth from fiction.

I believe that the essence of photography is black and white. Color is but a deviance.

Why should there be only one sort of photography? I want to create images with elements of my choosing, narrative or evocative... I give myself a literary frame, I tell a story.

The photos that interest me most, I can't say why I took them. I think my gift is that I still work with a certain amount of unconsciousness.

To be more creative is to get closer to childhood.

What I aim at is an image with a minimum of information and markers, that has no reference to a given time or place.

For nothing to happen, something has to happen first.

How can one live without hope and longing?

I never photograph reality.

Once is sometimes enough and once is sometimes necessary.

When I started go-karting at the age of six, I always dreamt of becoming a Formula One driver.

It's weird, huh? It's like the minute you kinda give up control you just know what to do without doing anything.

In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country.

Everything America should be, Muhammad Ali is.

Men can make an idol of the Bible.

Physicians still retain something of their priestly origin; they would gladly do what they forbid.

Activism is setting a goal of something you would like to be different, and figuring out what would have to change to achieve that goal. It's sort of like math.

Forgiveness is its own reward.

What you don’t know keeps you poor.

You're damn right I do. I'm in Madison Square Garden getting the s*** knocked out of me