Watching my daughter sort of live in this world where a photograph is not something to keep a memory. It's something to just speak with. It's language.

If you want to be a creative person, then you’re gonna have to be creative in how you put your career together. There isn’t a path. Part of the creativity is making your path.

I fell in love with the process of taking pictures, with wandering around finding things. To me it feels like a kind of performance. The picture is a document of that performance.

I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to fill in.

The people that I photographed allowed me to photograph them because they didn't want to be alone, and the truth is I didn't want to be alone making the pictures.

Photography is a very lonely medium. There’s a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And that’s why I’m a photographer.

I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film.

[Photography is] very related to poetry. It's suggestive and fragmentary and unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It's as much about what you leave out as what you put in.

For me, the act of photography is all about discovery and finding new things.

For me, photography is as much about the way I respond to the subject as it is about the subject itself.

Nobody really wants to be alone. People need people.

One of the greatest statements you can ever make on earth is to say “I am right, but I may be wrong”. Find out where you go wrong and make corrections!

Don't confuse activity with action.

Always carry a book on a date so that when you get bored you can slip into the Ladies for a read.

Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle.

Marriage is such hard work. And it's full of rage and real human drama.

As a society, we've learned that we're all better off when everyone is included in the opportunities of this great nation.

High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.

Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.

It's a big enough umbrella, but it's always me that ends up getting wet.

I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.