Ultimately, my hope is to amaze myself.

Photography is just light remembering itself.

My creative process begins when I get out with the camera and interact with the world. A camera is truly a license to explore. There are no uninteresting things. There are just uninterested people.

It's equally hard and labor intensive to create an image on the computer as it is in a darkroom. Believe me.

I have gradually confused photography with life.

I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.

Of course, in order to make art, the frustration of not working has to be greater than the frustration of working.

When the entire process becomes a prescribed ritual that does not allow for spontaneous variations and reactions, the vitality of the medium and our relation to it suffers.

The goal of the artist is not to resolve life's mysteries, but to deepen them.

My visual quest is driven by a desire to create a universe capable of supporting feelings and ideas.

The anticipation of discovering new possibilities becomes my greatest joy.

Eleanor had never thought about killing herself – ever – but she thought a lot about stopping.

I have tread all three of his books and they held me spellbound interesting story. Its fiction based on fact...mmm I like!

Nothing is more powerful than beauty in a wicked world.

but right now it's Bob Dylan Bob Dylan Bob Dylan all the way.

Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.

If diversity is O.K. for God, it ought to be O.K. for Republicans.

Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or watered down, in an effort to make it palatable, in an effort to make it pay.

Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys

But that's not to say that the potential for the sun to shine doesn't exist. You know? Walk down the path towards the light, rather than walk into the darkness.

There are no black holes - in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity. There are however apparent horizons which persist for a period of time.