Let's say that what's out there is a narrative. Often enough, the picture plays with the question of what actually is happening. Almost the way puns function.

No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.

Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

Dreaming isn't bad for you but not doing anything to craft your dream is.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.

When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.

[Bill] Binney designed ThinThread, an NSA program that used encryption to try to make mass surveillance less objectionable. It would still have been unlawful and unconstitutional.

In Iran, as in all developing countries, they wanted to copy the outside world, without knowing what was good for our own country.

I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever.

The spirit of a government must be that of the country. The form of a government must come from the makeup of the country. Government is nothing but the balance of the natural elements of a country.

If you have no more happiness to give: Give me your pain.

I don't think I will ever do any tours again in the United States. I rather think that that's over with.

Those who study the stars have God for a teacher.