I've always gone for a kind of perfection. In the end, it's so much better to get the feeling of, "Wow, she's so perfect," from a doll than to have to bear that from a woman in a magazine.

I'm not interested in telling a story in my photographic work. I'm more interested in freezing certain moments in time.

Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible.

...Let's get to the image as quickly as possible, let's get to the message even faster, and let's find the scale to knock you over the head with the image and the message.

I'm very interested in stopping time. And starting time. There is that aspect of time that I'm playing with, that it's elusive and unnoticed yet really in the end the most important thing.

My father was a dentist. And my mother was a - do we still say "housewife"? A home engineer.

People are much more willing nowadays to believe that pictures lie than [that] they can express any kind of truth.

I've always gone for a kind of perfection.

You mine your own past in order to get to know yourself.

I think making features has got to be in the addiction category.

Oh god, success is so exhausting.

The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.

And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now.

Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research.

I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder

In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.

My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so I've got a 50 percent chance of living a long life like him.

Those who are called to the table of the Lord must glow with the brightness.

I collect dice and I collect coins. I travel the world so I love dice, I always have dice on me. I collect magnets as well.