I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film.

If you want to be a creative person, then you’re gonna have to be creative in how you put your career together. There isn’t a path. Part of the creativity is making your path.

I fell in love with the process of taking pictures, with wandering around finding things. To me it feels like a kind of performance. The picture is a document of that performance.

I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to fill in.

The people that I photographed allowed me to photograph them because they didn't want to be alone, and the truth is I didn't want to be alone making the pictures.

Photography is a very lonely medium. There’s a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And that’s why I’m a photographer.

[Photography is] very related to poetry. It's suggestive and fragmentary and unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It's as much about what you leave out as what you put in.

For me, the act of photography is all about discovery and finding new things.

For me, photography is as much about the way I respond to the subject as it is about the subject itself.

Nobody really wants to be alone. People need people.

Photography, for me, is a lot like web surfing in real life.

I'm not tired. I'm just checking my eyelids for holes. It could take a while

Only you can make your dreams come true ...or not.

Refusal to forgive reveals we have minimized our offense against God and we have maximized a brother's offense against us.

From now on walking is my beer and feeling good is my hangover.

People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.

I should like to insist that nearly all the important questions, the things we ponder in our profoundest moments, have no answers.

I find writing extremely difficult. I usually have to drag myself to my desk, mainly because I doubt myself. And it's getting harder because I want to improve with every book.

All my life I still have found, and I will forget it never; Every sorrow hath its bound, and no cross endures forever.

The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.

At Rochester, I came with the same emotions as many of the entering freshman: everything was new, exciting and a bit overwhelming, but at least nobody had heard of my brothers and cousins.