Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality.

Finding the right subject is the hardest part.

I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.

I'm interested in reality, and I'm interested in survival. I'm interested in people who aren't the lucky ones, who maybe have a tougher time surviving, and telling their story.

It’s not when you press the shutter, but why you press the shutter.

Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.

Reality is always extraordinary.

I’m just interested in people on the edges. I feel an affinity for people who haven’t had the best breaks in society. What I want to do more than anything is acknowledge their existence.

I was fascinated by my own prom pictures.

I respect newspapers but the reality is that magazine "photojournalism" is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.

A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit.

The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.

In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.

Any alleged 'right' of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right.

No one but a fool is always right.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life.

We must not inquire too curiously into the absolute value of literature. Enough that it amuses and exercises us. At least it leaves us where we were. It names things, but does not add things.

Inspiration is the gift of those who have experienced life at its most defined moments.

Progress depends as much on our collective differences as it does on our individual IQ scores.

Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think.