I don't need exotic places to be stimulated. Out of familiarity comes nuance. The more you revisit a subject the more you're like to discover.

Photographers are victims of paradox, tracking the impermanent to make it permanent.

What appears in the pictures was the subject's decision, not mine. I took what they presented - delicate moments - unadorned and unglamorous, yet tender and exquisite.

I am not an objective reporter. I prefer to go further, to the unstated things of our existence. What I can't understand and grasp seems to lead me.

The collection of photographs is a statement about the relationship of my camera and me.

A lot of my work is about is about events, but I also think a lot of my work is about fragmentation.... You have to break something down in order to have the parts synthesize.

You know your husband truly loves you when he calls you, "Money, I'm home!

Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone.Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

I'm the foe of moderation the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle "I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right."

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

I've noticed over my 22 years of living that, yes, women can be difficult, and I call myself a ladies' man, thinking I have them figured out. But as men, we will never understand women.

Once you're in love, you have that excuse to go and do whatever you want.

National security - the military is the first thing we should spend money on. You have to fully fund that first. And then you should be paying for everything else.

Heidi [Montag]'s a far more talented artist. Personally, I think Lady Gaga is repulsive and classless.

I'm better at accepting the people who don't have nice things to say about me anonymously, but until you've experienced it, you don't understand how much it can affect you and mess with your mind.

Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.