I would never censor something to please someone. I don't play games.

If I had to pick a single word to describe what my pictures are all about, I would say 'secrets.' As a child I always had a secret world and my favorite book was “A Secret Garden.

Have the utmost respect for your subjects. Love them.

I think of my work as very polarizing; either people really do like it and are touched by it or they really don't get it at all. It's not accessible to all people at the same level.

Our best pictures happen by grace.

I love feeling that I am opening new worlds for people who don't have time to investigate these things themselves.

Find the one thing you’re good at and FOCUS on it.

The people I work with, the people I photograph, become a kind of family for me.

I never chased after any particular school, never really had mentors; I really just did the work that was true to me.

I have the same themes over and over again. How I'm saying it keeps changing or growing.

Son, it is bad for a man to be condemned by his children, more so by the sons he cherishes.

I've always thought of writing as sort of active communication.

We do not realize that as soon as our thoughts cease and all attempts at forming ideas are forgotten the Buddha reveals himself before us.

He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.

Time is the great workman of Nature.

You’ll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of despair.

I wonder how well she sleeps at night, and what kind of dreams she has. I wish I could step into them like she steps into mine.

I was perhaps one of the few people that were not part of [Pablo Escobar] group of yes-men because I was not a direct beneficiary of the violence that his actions generated.

I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them.

It's important for you to understand that stock and bonds go up-and they go down. You need to be comfortable with that fact.