I think that's the strength of photography - to decide the decisive moment, to click in the moment to come up with a picture that never comes back again.

One of these days, I'm going to publish a book of all the pictures I did not take.

What counts is putting the intensity that you yourself have experienced into the picture. Otherwise it is just a document.

A photograph is a moment when you press the button. It will never come back.

To some extent, the cult surrounding black-and-white photography is based on nostalgia.

On digital photography: It's fantastic, but it's not a freebie for anything. You still have to have this (he points to his eyes), and this (points to his heart), and feet.

A digital camera has to be kept in check like a racehorse.

I never thought I would become a photographer.

Looking back, I didn't have the patience to work in fashion. I like women so much, but I was never qualified to torture them in photo shoots. You have to be really tough and brutal.

Love is not everything

what ismore beautifultears, in someone’s eyesfor meor in my eyesfor them.

Nonviolence is supremely the weapon of the dispossessed, the underprivileged, and the egalitarian, not those who are still addicted to private profit, commercial values, and great wealth.

Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.

I know who I want to be with, and it isn't her. - Ryan

Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.

Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded.

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.

Catherine went still. Her eyes closed against a sudden wet sting. 'Did you accept her proposal?' Leo nuzzled tenderly into the hollow beneath her ear. 'Of course not, pea-goose.

I think there's a stigma to some degree about the outer boroughs and Jersey, and whether their stories are worth telling.