There is so much more to the things that we think we know from afar. The close you get the more complex it is, not the simpler it is to understand.

The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.

Finding a photograph is often like picking up a piece from a jigsaw-puzzle box with the cover missing. There’s no sense of the whole. Each image is a mysterious part of something not yet revealed.

I see myself in [the] tradition of encounter and witness - a witness that sees the photograph as evidence.

We know photographers make frames, but we deeply believe they can also create frameworks.

If Instagram had been available when I was working in Nicaragua in 1978, I'm sure I would have wanted to use it as a way of reporting directly from the streets during the insurrection.

For a long time I've lived with the inadequacy of that frame to tell everything I knew, and I think a lot about what is outside of the frame.

The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don’t belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.

I love honesty and freedom and giving. I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.

Because If you ever think of me in the future I want you to remember me smiling

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!

Three thousand jurisdictions across the U.S. are estimated to have had gang activity in 2001. In 2002, 32% of cities with a population of 25 to 50 thousand reported a gang-related homicide.

If you need a transfusion of spiritual strength then just ask for it. We call that Prayer. Prayer is powerful spiritual medicine.

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.

Perfect night, wasn't it?" "It could have been." I smiled up at him. "But you were there.

You exist in time, but you belong to eternity.

Why did the wise guys always accuse other people of being wise guys?