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.

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

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.

Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!

Leaders don't cheat

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority.

The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I naturally start at Chapter 3.

One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family.

When you hold a child in your arms, or hug your mother, or your husband, or your friend, if you breathe in and out three times, your happiness will be multiplied at least tenfold.

You know, bigotry isn't relevant to just the South. It never was. But I'm very grateful that I don't know what it's like from experience.

Bitterness only consumes the vessel that contains it.

There's a lot more to me than just funny.