My favorite thing is to go where I have never gone.

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.

The world is full of fictional characters looking for their stories

Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

Take pictures of what you fear.

I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.

I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.

Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.

The thing that interests me most about family history is the gap between the things we think we know about our families and the realities.

We live in a bubble of progression, and over the last eight years [of Barack Obama], we've been a country of progression.

the public never is independently responsive to news.

A full bosom is actually a millstone around a woman's neck.

Throw out and keep throwing out. Elegance means elimination.

I still cry on waking. I'm not sure why. I feel nothing. Nothing I can name, anyway. It's like breathing - something that happens over which I have no control. (6)

Without investing in the rule of law for the poor, none of the other investments we make will be sustainable.

I realize that the majority of people in the entertainment business happen to be Democrats. I have no problem with that. And they should have no problem with the fact that I'm a Republican.

Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do.