The ideal photographic document would appear to be without author or art.

The photobook occupies that deep area between the novel and the film.

I used photography to distance myself from a world that I loathed and was powerless to improve.

I wanted [my photography] to appear as though the camera was seeing by itself.

It might be more useful, if not necessarily more true, to think of photography as a narrow, deep area between the novel and film.

I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I understand now that this was a minority point of view.

Every morning most of the people wake up alive than dead, so I do have a faith there is still some goodness left in the man.

Gideon touched her cheek, lightly, with the tips of his fingers. “Did you know your name means ‘wisdom’? It was very well-given.

China is a long caravan, longer and stronger than the Wall.

I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.

Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your darkest visions and fears

It's a sort of curious phenomenon that God is somehow not quite as nice as the devil; the devil doesn't punish you for behaving well, but God punishes you for behaving badly.

Readers want what is important to be clearly laid out; they will not read what is too troublesome.

I had such a distaste for '70s clothing. So, the '90s were a rough period for me because I got made fun of for wearing what they used to call "pegged pants." Now they call them "skinny jeans."

Wealth is what you take from the world; worth is what you give back.

Once I retire and slow down, I don't want to be in New York. I want to be somewhere near a lake or a pond, so that on my days when I have nothing to do, I can go fishing.