If I had a picture of two handcuffed criminals being booked, I would cut the picture in half and get five bucks for each.

When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and tears, you will know you are on the right track.

To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real.

Many photographers live in a dream world of beautiful backgrounds. It wouldn’t hurt them to get a taste of reality to wake them up.

My name is Weegee. I'm the world's greatest photographer.

The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.

People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.

To me, pictures are like blintzes - ya gotta get 'em while they're hot.

What I did, anybody can do.

Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees.

There are photographic fanatics, just as there are religious fanatics. They buy a so-called candid camera there is no such thing: it’s the photographer who has to be candid, not the camera.

If you work for it, you'll deserve what comes. Hard work.

I slept well that night because someone had been kind to me.

Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group.

I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.

Rampant inflation is just as hard to live with as the devaluation of commodities.

As is true with respect to other great evils, the measures by which war might be made altogether impossible for the future may well be worse than even war itself.

Tony Blair is the best friend I've had in politics.

It's logical for us to sing, but not necessarily operatic pieces.

There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

I hope one day God will reveal all the truths to people that He has never sent any Holy Book, nor did He create anything but chaos!