There are photographs that I don’t take now, that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.

Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful.

Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.

I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.

When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed consent question was answerable.

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.

All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.

The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.

I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.

I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.

If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art.

If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity.

Now may every living thing, young or old, weak or strong, living near or far, known orunknown, living or departed or yet unborn, may every living thing be full of bliss.

Do not become a slave to sin.

Perhaps I’ve been rushing my whole entire life, jumping into things headfirst without thinking them through. Running through the days without noticing the minutes.

All of our policies are based on whether it will make - enable people to improve their lives or it will make their lives worse.

I don't think I'm always right, but I would like to empower people to come to sound conclusions using a systematic way of looking at things.

Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare.

She's had so little love, Jesse thought, I will drown her in it for the rest of her life.

I believe that each of us-no matter what our age or background or walk of life-each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.

Nothing whips my blood like verse.