My photography has really always been about what I feel I'm getting out of it. What people on the outside get doesn't concern me.

I am excited about more than just youth culture, and youth is also stretching a bit longer now. But I have to say resistance and disregard keeps me excited.

I think I'm predominantly known for my portraits. Obviously in my work there are landscape or stilllife elements, but mainly my work is people . . .

I always thought that I was lazy because I could never tell if I was working or not. I was making things, which doesn't seem like work.

I'm pretty solitary when I take pictures. Even when I take pictures of people, I just go about my own way of doing it.

The place where I am is always my favorite place.

I have always made films simultaneously, so they go hand in hand. I think that my books are like films.

Holland is a fairly small country, and in a weird way, somewhat conservative. That might surprise people because it is a very tolerant place, but it's also a somewhat Calvinist country.

Sometimes when people look at the work I've done with my family, they think it's autobiographical. But it really isn't. It's more about the idea of family.

A lot of my work comes through accidents or circumstances that just happen to present themselves. I have to realize that something is presenting itself. Otherwise it slips right by.

I'm a very curious person. And most people are charmed by curiosity - especially if you are curious about them or what they are doing . . . unless they are breaking into a car or something.

Wisdom is the thin conduit between two opposing viewpoints

God, he was probably too young to be this old, but life had a way of being about experience, rather than calendar days.

Very high altitude observatories are a known worker health hazard.

I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunder

I have a lot of respect for the bikers, which I've always had.

Over the years of much self-hate, I came to realize that whether sexuality was in my life or not, it didn't seem to matter. I just surrendered the whole thing to God.

To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.

MBAs know everything but understand nothing.

You can work next to a guy for months without even knowing his name.

It's always interesting to play people different from yourself, it would be boring for me to play myself.