I hate being away, but I understand that for me, that's where the work, the stories are.

The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling.

I love New York, but am happy to be away from it. I really like small towns, with welcoming barbecue restaurants.

I see myself as a recorder of history, sort of a visual historian.

War isn't a TV show with plot twists to keep the viewers interested. The proliferation of images and blanket media coverage have suffocated the life out of old-style photojournalism.

The satisfaction comes from working next to 500 photographers and coming away with something different.

The fact that I have a little ten-megapixel camera with me all the time, is way better than having the greatest camera in the world sitting at home on a desk instead of on my shoulder.

It's a given your family will be tired of being photographed, but don't give up. In another couple of decades, those are the pictures you will be glad to have.

Shooting film is not for everybody, but if you're crazy enough it might be for you.

When you've lived through the golden age of photojournalism, there's no point in being nostalgic.

Your love is the best tincture

Why does anybody do anything?" Mimi asked impatiently. "Most of the time we don't know--any of us.

Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing "selves" that are worth expressing.

I want to give some positive messages and to empower some people.

We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.

(Such a life)engaged gross quantities of hope and despair and set them wildly side by side, like a Third World country of the heart.

All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.

And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.

I have obsessed about my weight in some sort of way all my life. I used to write in my journal what I weighed every day.