I photograph like a documentarian, but I print like a painter

As an artist I have always felt that my task is not to create meaning but to charge the air so that meaning can occur.

I believe you can use photographs to meditate on and work through things in your life.

I have learned to consciously avoid letting that thought, It's been done, enter my creative process. You have to try not to edit yourself before you actually shoot.

If you get one photograph that's good from a trip, that's plenty.

I wish I had lost an arm or a leg. It would have been much easier than losing a part of my heart, which lives on, but now beats to a different rhythm.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

With a sketch show, it's "a bunch of people and they're being funny." In a way that you can't really explain it.

Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.

Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?

The public library is more than a repository of books. It's a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives.

Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration.

It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.

By consciously deciding how you will live the rest of your life, you can create a life that is extraordinary.

Let no one who has the slightest desire to live in peace and quietness be tempted, under any circumstances, to enter upon the chivalrous task of trying to correct a popular error.