The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything.

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.

The world is full of fictional characters looking for their stories

Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

Take pictures of what you fear.

I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.

I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.

This book is a story, and like all stories, it should be taken with a grain of salt.

At the turning point of our emotions, there lay a magic milestone of hope, before us.

He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

Once I did bad and that I heard ever. Twice I did good, but that I heard never.

Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes!

I don't care who you are, everyone has been through it - that feeling where you'd like to be someone else.

I must study war and politics so that my children shall be free to study commerce, agriculture and other practicalities, so that their children can study painting, poetry and other fine things.

For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.

Morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one's function in the sociopolitical whole.