The place where I am is always my favorite place.

I am excited about more than just youth culture, and youth is also stretching a bit longer now. But I have to say resistance and disregard keeps me excited.

I think I'm predominantly known for my portraits. Obviously in my work there are landscape or stilllife elements, but mainly my work is people . . .

I always thought that I was lazy because I could never tell if I was working or not. I was making things, which doesn't seem like work.

I'm pretty solitary when I take pictures. Even when I take pictures of people, I just go about my own way of doing it.

My photography has really always been about what I feel I'm getting out of it. What people on the outside get doesn't concern me.

I have always made films simultaneously, so they go hand in hand. I think that my books are like films.

Holland is a fairly small country, and in a weird way, somewhat conservative. That might surprise people because it is a very tolerant place, but it's also a somewhat Calvinist country.

Sometimes when people look at the work I've done with my family, they think it's autobiographical. But it really isn't. It's more about the idea of family.

A lot of my work comes through accidents or circumstances that just happen to present themselves. I have to realize that something is presenting itself. Otherwise it slips right by.

I'm a very curious person. And most people are charmed by curiosity - especially if you are curious about them or what they are doing . . . unless they are breaking into a car or something.

There are hidden opportunities for each person everywhere and in everything, every day!

Father, you died once, salted down at fifty-nine, packed down like a big snow angel, wasn't that enough?

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

Love is who we are without our stories.

The Republicans have a high Beady-Eyed Self-Righteous Scary Borderline Loon Quotient, as evidenced by Phyllis Schlafly, Pat Robertson, the entire state of Utah, etc.

A man of God in the will of God is immortal until His work is done.

You can't wait forever for an audience to get the joke, but you should give them at least two seconds to join in before you go on to the next one.

Those numbers with Tony are so often and so interesting.

It is a feeble compassion that pulls up short where self-interest begins.

The ending of partition was inevitable because Ireland was one nation by history and tradition , by facts of race, geography, and economy