My father was a dentist. And my mother was a - do we still say "housewife"? A home engineer.

I'm not interested in telling a story in my photographic work. I'm more interested in freezing certain moments in time.

Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible.

...Let's get to the image as quickly as possible, let's get to the message even faster, and let's find the scale to knock you over the head with the image and the message.

I'm very interested in stopping time. And starting time. There is that aspect of time that I'm playing with, that it's elusive and unnoticed yet really in the end the most important thing.

People are much more willing nowadays to believe that pictures lie than [that] they can express any kind of truth.

I've always gone for a kind of perfection.

You mine your own past in order to get to know yourself.

I think making features has got to be in the addiction category.

Oh god, success is so exhausting.

I think the big news there - most post-menopausal women I know are not celibate.

But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad, " replied Martin.

I don’t know what makes people start wanting each other any more than I know what makes it stop all of a sudden. I just know that when you lose it once, you’ll never take it for granted again

They celebrated the sins, while the kindness continued to weep in the corner. The swords of the demons shined brighter, while the wings of the angels were crumpled and bled.

To break the pentameter, that was the first heave

He was one of those guys who'd pronounce I'm a hugger as he came at you, neglecting to ask if the feeling was mutual.

Free speech is meaningless unless it tolerates the speech that we hate.

There's no country in the world that's more devastated from natural resources than Afghanistan.

A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.

Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.

I also like to do physical things. I like swimming a lot. I like traveling. Not touring traveling but just plain traveling. I also read a lot. Reading takes up most of my time.