It just struck me that one of the things about photography that made it such a compelling medium to deal with is that it is perhaps the most contradictory of mediums.

I was always amazed at how beautiful the light was. At different times of the day the landscape becomes a different place. Dawn and dusk, it's a different place.

You spend your whole life trapped inside your body. Everything you know about the world comes to you through your body.

What happens with experiences that really move us deeply, that really effect us? They make the world new again. What it does is it heightens our sense of mortality.

On practical level I can't pick up the camera until I think I know what I want. I don't wander around. It's almost impossible for me to pick up a camera... it's really hard.

Most of life is grey, with a little tiny bit of black and white.

You pick up a camera because something has been revealed to you in the landscape or in the human-scape. And you have no choice because it's a gift. And it's like, oh right, I better start doing this!

There are no inherent limitations to the medium. There are just differences.

There's something about the processional nature of the architecture, of the rooms connecting rooms. It's just breathtaking.

It was the dreamscape of the suburbs that interested me.

As a boy I was obsessed with Egypt and Egyptology. I'm convinced it's not that uncommon. A lot of 10 or 12 year old boys become obsessed with Egypt. It's a bit like young girls and horses.

Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.

I must always be positive no matter what happens on the outside. I have positivity inside and even though this is not an eternal state of mind, it’s my daily attitude in life.

Do not resent growing old, many are denied the privilege.

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side.

I shall develop the thesis that anyone acting communicatively must, in performing any speech act, raise universal validity claims and suppose that they can be vindicated.

Everyone can have a bad day.

It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.

There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don't wish to do.

I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family. And he assured me that he was my family now. -Tris Prior