I have a special relationship with God. And when I take the right photograph, God gives me a little bing! in the camera. And then I know I'm on the right track.

Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.

What would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life.

I came from the outside, the rules of photography didn't interest me.

I was a make believe ethnographer: treating New Yorkers like an explorer would treat Zulus - searching for the rawest snapshot, the zero degree of photography.

I thought New York had it coming, that it needed a kick in the balls. When I returned to New York, I wanted to get even. Now I had a weapon, photography.

Anybody who pretends to be objective isn't realistic.

Stories are the single most powerful weapon in a leader’s arsenal

I experience so many feelings and emotions when I tour. It's the most amazing and also the most lonely thing you can do.

My integrity means more to me than any fame or money. When I say something, I want people to take it to the bank that I mean it and believe in it.

Put every light you have on a dimmer. Because after a certain age, we can play with the lighting and set it on how you look best on it. Its cheaper than plastic surgery.

I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he'll miss me, but he's never been particularly sentimental.

[The question for the behavioral disciplines is simply] what is better, and how do we get there?

We can't be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths.

If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, and you will never hear anything more free than that.

[The PlayStation 2 is a] historic, a mass-market appliance that fundamentally changes society in the way the printing press did.

Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.