Oh god, success is so exhausting.

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.

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

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.

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

People being tough with you doesn't mean they're villains.

All other things held constant, to the extent that an individual or society sees, believes in, and acts in abundance, so will it have wealth and happiness.

Fo' Gawd, Miss Scarlett! We's got ter have a doctah. Ah- Ah- Miss Scarlett, Ah doan know nuthin' 'bout bringin' babies. -Prissy

Why is a door-knob deader than anything else?

Here's to all the places we went. And all the places we'll go. And here's to me, whispering again and again and again and again: iloveyou

Feeling sad about anything is holding onto it. Say, 'This is something I have to let go of,' and immediately you will feel better.

When I go down into the ground at last, as God is my judge, I pray my best-beloved may have better to say of me than, "He didn't hit me."

With patience bear what pains you have deserved, Grieve, if you will, over what's unmerited.

Design is the last great competitive advantage.

If you want something as bad as you want to breathe, then you can do it.