No Jews have our own guilt, that's why we have psychiatrists - the Jewish version of a priest.

I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.

My desire is to preserve the sense of people’s lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them. I want the people in my pictures to stare back.

For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody - it's a caress… I think that you can actually give people access to their own soul.

I always thought if I photographed anyone or anything enough, I would never lose the person, I would never lose the memory, I would never lose the place. But the pictures show me how much I've lost.

Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.

I knew from a very early age, that what I saw on tv had nothing to do with real life. So I wanted to make a record of real life. That included having a camera with me at all times.

I just get inspired to take a picture by the beauty and vulnerability of my friends.

My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them.

I think the wrong things are kept private

My work shows the beauty in so many different kinds of people because I never photograph anyone who I don't think is beautiful. I never take an intentionally mean picture.

Raise the bar higher than your opinion...

The Hermit is an important tarot card with much to tell us, but he tends not to be so welcome around the bonfire.

When people see me struggling on paper, I think it invites an almost collaborative relationship with the outside world, and that includes readers and other artists.

God wants worshipers before workers; indeed the only acceptable workers are those who have learned the lost art of worship.

Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.

The creation of a more peaceful and happier society has to begin from the level of the individual, and from there it can expand to one's family, to one's neighborhood, to one's community and so on.

Great, lets round up all the useless cats and hope a tree falls on them - Jayfeather

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

Remember who you really are and be that.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.