To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real.

When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and tears, you will know you are on the right track.

Many photographers live in a dream world of beautiful backgrounds. It wouldn’t hurt them to get a taste of reality to wake them up.

My name is Weegee. I'm the world's greatest photographer.

The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.

People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.

If I had a picture of two handcuffed criminals being booked, I would cut the picture in half and get five bucks for each.

To me, pictures are like blintzes - ya gotta get 'em while they're hot.

What I did, anybody can do.

Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees.

There are photographic fanatics, just as there are religious fanatics. They buy a so-called candid camera there is no such thing: it’s the photographer who has to be candid, not the camera.

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

I think New York has the most diverse and best quality representation of so many different cuisines at all levels.

My mom's passionate and energetic and very funny and enthusiastic.

Heaven and earth, advantages and obstacles, conspire to educate genius.

I would be jokesmithing. I had files with tons of disses that I would try to write as I was on the train going to school.

Virtue is the health of the soul.

Having a go at kids with a terminal illness is really beyond the pale, absolutely beyond the pale.

The international music scene has grown so much, and America is sort of following that.

Dr. King gave the "I have a dream" speech, not the "I have a plan" speech.

When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart.