I'm trying to take pictures of less and less.

The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.

Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.

Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city.

The digital print is becoming the look of our time, and it makes the C-print start to look like a tintype.

No individual photo explains anything. That’s what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.

Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.

When you have unity, I think it squares the reach or power of the work.

Photography has always been capable of manipulation.

Self-pity is one of the most dangerous forms of self-centeredness. It fogs our vision.

There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling along a non-existant shore.

Don't believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival hustlers tell you about fearless living - they lie.

Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.

I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.

Most single guys I know think fatherhood is terrifying.

I feel a strange, fierce squeeze in my heart when I see him, like pride, although there's nothing about Sean that I can take credit for.

Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness

There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.

Letting someone down is not criminal action.