We are alone on this planet. It's not a choice. Here we are. This is what everyone has to deal with.

Vision is an intelligent form of thought

In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering a report on reality, but should be looking at what's behind something.

I stand at a distance, like a person who comes from another world.

I read a picture not for what's really going on there, I read it more for what is going on in our world generally.

I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.

Since the photographic medium has been digitized, a fixed definition of the term photography has become impossible.

Any claims on the truth in my pictures are only to be answered in the sense that a particular event did in fact happen and did take place in the here and now.

A word is worth a thousand images.

My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain my grip on the world.

I pursue one goal the encyclopaedia of life.

Yes, we live, or we're given the chance to, at least, but sometimes living is hard and complicated because of fear.

As Hagrid had said, what would come would come and he would have to meet it when it did.

By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.

Most women don't like good men. They say they want a good buy, but most women always wind up with the bad boy.

Within thy Grave! Oh no, but on some other flight - Thou only camest to mankind To rend it with Good night

Truth be told, there are lots of companies that provide exemplary phone support. DirecTV, Virgin America and Apple are a few that regularly exceed my expectations.

[Literature is] a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts.

Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.

It's all make believe, isn't it?

Dyslexia, though, made me realise that people who say "but you can't do that" aren't actually very important. I don't take "no" too seriously.