The danger is, you have a formula and you just repeat it.

All photography is propaganda.

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist.

I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar.

You have to take a lot of bad pictures. Dont' be afraid to take bad pictures... You have to take a lot of bad pictures in order to know when you've got a good one.

You can read a lot about a country by looking at its beaches: across cultures, the beach is that rare public space in which all absurdities and quirky national behaviors can be found.

The easy bit is picking up a camera and pointing and shooting. But then you have to decide what it is you’re trying to say and express.

You can't learn passion, either you've got it or you haven't.

We are drowning in images. Photography is used as a propaganda tool, which serves to sell products and ideas. I use the same approach to show aspects of reality.

I am what I photograph.

In my sleep I have my nightmares, awake I have my thoughts, I am not sure which is worse.

Your level of self-confidence is not something you are born with, though it is influenced by the circumstances into which you were born and grew up.

Patience is the path to opportunities. We gain patience through prayer and meditation. Within that vein, we never consider ourselves having failed.

Be civilized. Grudges are for Neanderthals. – Hubert Humphrey

It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

As long as in love there is "you" and "me," love is not fully kindled.

I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.

I don't want to date someone who the whole world knows. Obviously, there are guys you look at and are like, 'Aww yeah, nice,' but I definitely have an anti-celebrity dating thing.

If we operate with a belief in long sweeps of time, we build cathedrals; if we operate from fiscal quarter to fiscal quarter, we build ugly shopping malls.

Under the international agreements, the Russian peacekeepers are committed to protect the population of South Ossetia.