I don't trust words. I trust pictures.

I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.

Even before I started photography, I began to see that there was a disjunction between available languages and reality.

I am bad at memory - this is why I shoot pictures.

[The photograph is] still a space to reorganize our thoughts about reality and our place in the world. How do you disentangle the surface of reality?

We are humiliated by what is powerful and mean, but awed by what is powerful and noble.

Blood rushed to the regions of my body that I associated with naughtiness, and I was powerless to stop it.

Whenever I don't get injured, the film is a dud. I didn't bleed on 'Rhinestone.' I didn't bleed on 'Stop! Or My Mom will Shoot.'

I wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was going on, but I had fun.

FC Barcelona is the national team of Catalonia

When everyone is included, everyone wins.

You don’t know the meaning of moderation, do you, my darling? A happy medium is something I wonder if you’ll ever learn.

My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die. Everything else is superfluity and I will have none of it.

I knew [Timothy] Leary, but barely knew, didn't really know Jan [Kerouac].