I'm not interested in telling a story in my photographic work. I'm more interested in freezing certain moments in time.

Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible.

...Let's get to the image as quickly as possible, let's get to the message even faster, and let's find the scale to knock you over the head with the image and the message.

I'm very interested in stopping time. And starting time. There is that aspect of time that I'm playing with, that it's elusive and unnoticed yet really in the end the most important thing.

My father was a dentist. And my mother was a - do we still say "housewife"? A home engineer.

People are much more willing nowadays to believe that pictures lie than [that] they can express any kind of truth.

I've always gone for a kind of perfection.

You mine your own past in order to get to know yourself.

I think making features has got to be in the addiction category.

Oh god, success is so exhausting.

I think the big news there - most post-menopausal women I know are not celibate.

The only way to change is by changing your understanding.

I will not fail, I will not disappoint you, I will not let you down.

Doing the good deeds is like the grass in the garden. You don't see its growth. But, it does by days. Doing the wicked deeds is like the hone. You don't see its damage. But, it does by days.

It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.

No matter how tough the chase is, you should always have the dream you saw on the first day. It'll keep you motivated and rescue you (from any weak thoughts).

Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.

I am held by the creator of the world. I am opening, I am unbounded, I am luminous, I am powerful.

There's an independence to surfing, it's just you and the ocean. There aren't a bunch of rules.

If death is inevitable, one should try to die well.

God is not dead-He is merely unemployed.