I don't like reading music. It's like learning a language. You can't read music proficiently overnight. It takes time, it's boring work.

Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today.

I am at war with the obvious.

I don't think about what camera I should use that much. I just pick up the one that looks nicest on the day.

I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important.

I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two. So then that picture is taken and then the next one is waiting somewhere else.

Whatever it is about pictures, photographs, it's just about impossible to follow up with words. They don't have anything to do with each other.

We have a few things in common - smoking, drinking, and women. Photography just gets us out of the house. (To photographer Juergen Teller)

There is no particular reason to search for meaning.

It quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there wherever I happened to be. For any reason.

Photography just gets us out of the house.

I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defense and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest.

The sudden pounding in her chest, the trembling of her hands, the inflation of her lungs. It was exactly like being alive. It was reanimating the dead.

The world actually is a mirror, and as you change, you will see everything around you changing as well as mirroring your changes.

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

There's always more than one path, and to think otherwise is what resigns you to fate.

It's hard to teach passionately about something that you don't have a passion for.

Matches are won and lost so many times in the locker room.

The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.

The worst thing you write is better than the best thing you didn't write.

We have to yet really seriously debate the constitutional issues and whether or not we're willing to give up more freedom in order to have more security.