If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work less as a document of something than as a personal vision of the world.

It's unarguable to say that every one of us has been moved by the beauty of what I have called snapshots, but for photographers they are charms and proverbs, and like lightening or wild strawberries.

Cameras are like dogs, but dumb, and toward quarry, even more faithful. They point, they render, and defy the photographer who hopes.

[The photograph] is fabricated out of the unfabricated dross of passing life (while paradoxically still trading on the indexical heft of that dross).

I believe that the (distorting) mirror which is photography holds an intrinsic, even elemental, relation to writing.

Her skin smells of vintage books and pale moonlight, exotic things, forbidden loves and rainy nights.

Life isn't a life without fitness.

My grandmother, a dim, stern figure, named her children Lily and Violet, which I guess from seeing a picture of my mother's paved, ugly backyard, was the nearest she came to a garden.

Belief creates behaviors.

You have a choice! Deal with life's problems ... or life will deal with you.

Most people would rather die than think and many of them do!

The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy.

I got fired once for putting like a packet of biscuits through a fan - I was really bored.

There is a huge difference between danger and fear.

Women are being told to get midwives [in UK] because there's not enough room and there's not enough pain medicine at the hospitals.