I may very well move in. I just don't know. I can't sit here and know what pictures I'm going to take.

No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.

Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

America is bad at discriminating between danger likely to strike again, and red herrings, the freaking helpings of disaster that no man or plan can prevent.

Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.

Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.

The key to a good life: excess in moderation. They'll tell you moderation is the key to life, but that's bullshit.

His kiss was like white lightning, a flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed.

We have to make the economy fairer. That starts with raising the national minimum wage and also guarantee, finally, equal pay for women's work.

I miss All Stars, by the way. I was just telling people: how am I going to get by until January?

When God has given you your heart's desire, what have you done with your heart's desire?

Excise: A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.

I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of me.