I thought New York had it coming, that it needed a kick in the balls. When I returned to New York, I wanted to get even. Now I had a weapon, photography.

Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.

What would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life.

I came from the outside, the rules of photography didn't interest me.

I was a make believe ethnographer: treating New Yorkers like an explorer would treat Zulus - searching for the rawest snapshot, the zero degree of photography.

Anybody who pretends to be objective isn't realistic.

I have a special relationship with God. And when I take the right photograph, God gives me a little bing! in the camera. And then I know I'm on the right track.

Illusion"A man wants to be freeflying in the emptiness of the universeHe thinks he means somethingin the endlessness of natureA man wakes upbeing only a dust

Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.

Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.

The worst is over without a doubt.

Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

I like the early comic book characters more than the new ones.

Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near.

I rented a lottery ticket. I won a million dollars. But I had to give it back.

I've had to remove all mirrors from my home. I just can't seem to look at myself without having to buff the bishop, you know?