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.

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.

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)

Reading thus introduces an "art" which is anything but passive.

Behind every stressful thought is the desire for things to be other than they are.

Starting your own business isn't just a job - it's a way of life.

Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization.

I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.

Racing has reached the point where it is pricing the young driver, no matter his talent, out of the game.

The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.

Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.

Let me say that God will send me the plan when He gives the word as He has done before now.

Conversation is a beautiful thing. When I was a younger guy, just wandering around talking to people was what kept me connected to the world.