I try to take pictures on their own terms, considering the historical and social context from which they emerge.

Like a four-sided porch I'm open to all winds.

I've always assumed it to be an absolute requirement for being a writer: to find all emotions and the sources of all behaviors somewhere within yourself.

Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land

Subjectivity is my middle name, a trick memory is my pack mule, and self-contradiction is my trusty old jackknife.

I always give money to a sidewalk con if the story is a good one, even if I don't believe a word of it. Art deserves to get paid.

Unlike a bow and arrow, a camera by its nature ensures that some kind of target will always be hit, if not necessarily the intended target nor in the intended way.

New York has no truck with the past. It expels its dead.

I realize that books are not the entire world, even if they sometimes seem to contain it. But I need the stupid things.

I realised that although I was fascinated with America, its history and culture, I was not interested in becoming American.

When I was a child I did engage in an arduous struggle to pass: learning English, getting rid of my accent, becoming conversant with the culture in all its large and small aspects.

Remembered pain tightened his mouth into a grim line. The weeks he’d spent looking for her had left permanent scars on his heart.

If you have a dream as a child, but you let it go cold, you will grow old only to realize that you have sold your gold for no royalty!

When a law isn't just, I believe it's okay to disobey it. In fact, I believe we are morally obliged to disobey it.

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

I'm trying to find new ways to make this game more attractive.

Every Saturday I read sentences in SPIEGEL that lack clarity.

You'll never stand out if your goal in life is to fit in.

I like cooking - I make a good stir-fry and the family likes it when I make stewed chicken and macaroni and cheese.

Whatever you want in life, you've got to give away first.

A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.