It’s important for you to spend your time photographing things that matter to you. You need to understand the things that have meaning to you, and not what others think is important for you.

If you wait, people will forget your camera, and the soul will drift up into view.

A picture can express a universal humanism, or simply reveal a delicate and poignant truth by exposing a slice of life that might otherwise pass unnoticed.

Most of my photos are grounded in people, I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a persons face.

If you want to be a photographer, first leave home

My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.

The definition of a great picture is one that stays with you, one that you can't forget. It doesn't have to be technically good at all.

Some of the great pictures happen along the journey and not necessarily at your destination.

I strive for individual pictures that will burn in people's memories.

What matters most is that each picture stands on its own with its own place and feeling.

I think life is too short not to be doing something which you really believe in.

Marriage is a science which has studied no one!

There are no keys to success - only tools.

That reminds me of when you used to call and see us before Christmas, the year before last. Somehow–somehow life was all dark and secret and beautiful then.

I didn't ask anyone to make me a poster boy, because poster boys always end up on dart boards.

The trouble with putting armor on is that, while it protects you from pain, it also protects you from pleasure.

Oh, God, puppy dog eyes. From a six-foot-five ancient Viking vampire.

One who cares is one who listens.

It's very irresponsible as a parent to follow Tipper Gore or the Religious Right's advice and just take the offending CD or game away from the kid without discussing it.

The only way for a women to get my attention is to be you

It makes me unhappy when brothers make babies and leave a young mother to be a pappy.