The thing that drives me most crazy in the world is not to be believed.

I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.

My desire is to preserve the sense of people’s lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them. I want the people in my pictures to stare back.

For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody - it's a caress… I think that you can actually give people access to their own soul.

I always thought if I photographed anyone or anything enough, I would never lose the person, I would never lose the memory, I would never lose the place. But the pictures show me how much I've lost.

Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.

I knew from a very early age, that what I saw on tv had nothing to do with real life. So I wanted to make a record of real life. That included having a camera with me at all times.

I just get inspired to take a picture by the beauty and vulnerability of my friends.

My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them.

I think the wrong things are kept private

My work shows the beauty in so many different kinds of people because I never photograph anyone who I don't think is beautiful. I never take an intentionally mean picture.

May your life be a fountain of love and kindness to fill the world with joy.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Sometimes I forget when I read a book that it didn't exist in English first.

From fear of the unknown, both horns and wings have grown.

My eyes glaze over at a writer solving tiny problems.

I've got a long way to go. I'm not in a hurry.

The creative universe begins with its essentiality, and, whatever path the imagination takes, ends with its purity.

I would rather die for Christ than rule the whole earth.

'Forrest Gump' was great, it was fabulous. It lasted much longer than anybody thought, and brought me a degree of attention that no human being on the face of the planet deserves.

All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.