Stella McCartney is [my] big fan.

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.

Fear is more pain than is the pain it fears

Wit has truth in it wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.

When I was five years old, me and my cousin got into a fistfight because when "That's the Way (I Like It)" came on the radio, he said, "That's my song," and I said, "No, that's my song."

Will and I are yin and yang. He's all sky, vast and bright and soaring, and I'm all earth. I'm here to ground him, and he's here to help me fly.

Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else." Then let's be quiet together.

Perseverance is a choice. It's not a simple, one-time choice, it's a daily one. There's never a final decision.

The biggest problem in politics is that you help some S.O.B. get what he wants and then he throws you out of the train.

My father works for Xerox and fixes those gigantic copy machines that are about 10 feet wide.

The essence of synergy is to value differences-to respect them, to build on strengths, to compensate for weaknesses