Once is sometimes enough and once is sometimes necessary.

I believe that the essence of photography is black and white. Color is but a deviance.

Why should there be only one sort of photography? I want to create images with elements of my choosing, narrative or evocative... I give myself a literary frame, I tell a story.

I create situations that do not exist. I seek the truth from fiction.

The photos that interest me most, I can't say why I took them. I think my gift is that I still work with a certain amount of unconsciousness.

To be more creative is to get closer to childhood.

What I aim at is an image with a minimum of information and markers, that has no reference to a given time or place.

For nothing to happen, something has to happen first.

How can one live without hope and longing?

I never photograph reality.

I feel like decades ago it was either youre black, white, Asian or Hispanic, or whatever, but today we see more of an acceptance for people with multi-nationalities.

Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.

You have to draft a catcher, because if you don't have one, the pitch will roll all the way back to the screen.

I made friends with a lot of those who could have criticized me in print and who didn't, who praised me instead.

Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.

We all think we know what happens after death. But maybe it's going to be not only weird but also dorky and comic and inconsistent.

Keep a secret, it's your slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return.

You know, I think Marco Rubio would be a spectacular candidate for vice president. I think he would energize the country. I think he has a great story. He's bright. He's articulate.

What distracts me from my reality is bigfoot. They are my celebrities.