The pictures do not ask you to help these people, but something much more difficult; to be briefly, intensely aware of their existence, an existence as real and significant as your own.

The use of the camera has always been for me a tool of investigation, a reason to travel, to not mind my own business, and often to get into trouble.

I wanted to change history and preserve humanity. But in the process I changed myself and preserved my own.

I feel totally responsible for what I see. I feel totally responsible for what I photograph.

It’s a very weird thing being a photographer.

As a child I had been so afraid of so many things, but as soon as I held a camera in my hand, I began to expose myself to the very things that were foreign to me and that I had always feared.

I was a bike rider, a photographer and a history student, probably in that order. (On his early years)

God heals the human heart from any brokenness.

Death was here. The showdown wouldn't occur with the darkness of Halloween. It had come at dawn, and it bathed them in blood.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.

I know a lot about health, wellness, and nutrition. I make my own kombucha. I'm clumsy.

To him, who still would gaze upon the glory of the summer sun, there comes, when that sun will from him part, a sullen hopelessness of heart.

One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.

I remember thinking that the rest of my life would be solo. I wasn’t weepy when I thought that - it was just a realization that I had gone this long being self-sufficient.

[Health-care system] is largely privatized and unregulated. So of course it's highly inefficient and costly.