My taking pictures means I'm taking a series of pictures which become an essay and then get extended into a book. That's what's exciting, to take an idea and work it through to completion.

Photography teaches us to see, and we can see whatever we wish. When I take a photograph, I make a wish. I was always looking for beauty.

I try to take my interests and make them my work.

It's never as good the second time. Things don't get better. You can't always go back, a lot of it has been erased. The photograph is a record of it having existed.

The thing itself photographed becomes less interesting when you go back to it years later but I think the photograph becomes more important later when the reality has passed.

I don't speak emotionally about my pictures. That's for other people to do. I will say that I love my photographs. That's what keeps me going.

In the race of life, what matters is to complete your race.

Jimmy Boom Semtex says Semtex goes BOOM! Handle his books with care.

I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.

Sometimes a journey arises out of hope and instinct, the heady conviction, as your finger travels along the map: Yes, here and here ... and here. These are the nerve-ends of the world.

I've always said: if we ignore the issues that people want us to talk about, then you will have movements outside of the establishment political parties grow.

Start seeing everything as God, But keep it a secret

If we give up the notion that everybody’s life is perfect but ours, we would be a lot happier. Nobody’s life is perfect.

History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.

Now I feel life is really short and I have to take care of things.