It's a weird combination that makes a great picture. It's a complete mystery to me.

If you want to be a creative person, then you’re gonna have to be creative in how you put your career together. There isn’t a path. Part of the creativity is making your path.

I fell in love with the process of taking pictures, with wandering around finding things. To me it feels like a kind of performance. The picture is a document of that performance.

I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to fill in.

The people that I photographed allowed me to photograph them because they didn't want to be alone, and the truth is I didn't want to be alone making the pictures.

Photography is a very lonely medium. There’s a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And that’s why I’m a photographer.

I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film.

[Photography is] very related to poetry. It's suggestive and fragmentary and unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It's as much about what you leave out as what you put in.

For me, the act of photography is all about discovery and finding new things.

For me, photography is as much about the way I respond to the subject as it is about the subject itself.

Nobody really wants to be alone. People need people.

But it is precisely at those moments when the glass seems to be ‘set fair’ that Fate invariably decides to take a hand.

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him

Well, I just bought a massive bank and I've moved into it on my own.

I love to keep poking and prodding at it. I’ve thought about it so much over the years that that fascination is bound to spill over into my writing.

Maybe it was better to just go on believing everything was OK, even when really bad things were just about to happen.

The road to success is long and up hill all the way

Politics is my second love, next to my love for Raisa [Gorbacheva].

I don't think anybody ever saw anybody taking anything.

A police state is a country run by criminals

Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways are kept in poverty by their lack of gratitude.