I enjoy nothing more than spending time with my loved ones, young and old, and at least once a year we get together for a formal family photograph.

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.

Covering a historic event is perfectly legitimate. It's not sneaking into somebody's boudoir... These people belong to history, and not to record that if you have the opportunity would be wrong.

Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive.

After following the crowd for a while, I'd then go 180 degrees in the exact opposite direction. It always worked for me.

Working myself into a position of total versatility, so that I can do anything I want to do at the time I want to do it. Whether I do it or not is another question.

All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.

Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.

Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.

Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.

I like things that have to do with what is real, elegant, well presented and without excessive style. In other words, just fine observation.

A society no more exists for the satisfaction of human needs, than a plant exists for its own health.

Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.

Since I've been in Playboy myself in Australia, I love it, and I think it's really empowering and positive towards women, which is not a view that many women hold.

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

There are clear cases in which "understanding" literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument.

We'll have a 'rest of our lives' now.

The only punk that I really care about and am an expert on is the original punk of 1976 to 1979.

I think a philistine environment should be bracing for young artists. You have to make your own enjoyment, you've got to make your own art.

Science fiction is the only genre that enables African writers to envision a future from our African perspective.

A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things.