I like to photograph democratically.

Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today.

I am at war with the obvious.

I don't think about what camera I should use that much. I just pick up the one that looks nicest on the day.

I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important.

I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two. So then that picture is taken and then the next one is waiting somewhere else.

Whatever it is about pictures, photographs, it's just about impossible to follow up with words. They don't have anything to do with each other.

We have a few things in common - smoking, drinking, and women. Photography just gets us out of the house. (To photographer Juergen Teller)

There is no particular reason to search for meaning.

It quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there wherever I happened to be. For any reason.

Photography just gets us out of the house.

Ninety percent of paid work is time-wasting crap. The world gets by on the other ten.

No man can stay for forever young, Unless he is a writer.

In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.

Faces are the most interesting things we see

I think that the so-called average person often exhibits a great deal of heroism in getting through an ordinary day . . .

Under our Constitution, presidents have something called 'veto power.

Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks, and the setting sun with the last light of Durin’s Day will shine upon the key-hole.

I went to all-girls' schools my whole life, so every model of leadership that I saw was a young girl or a woman, and so there was never any hesitation that women could lead. I know what I believe.

Nobody could have prepared me for the life I've had to become accustomed to.

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.