What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.

I can get obsessed by anything if i look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

Working on photography is working on oneself.

I myself have always stood in the awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.

Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.

Photographing a cake can be art.

I always thought we were selling dreams, not clothes

I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.

Sometime in 1964 I realized that I was a victim of a printmaking obsession, a condition that persists today.

The printed page seems to have come to something of a dead end for all of us.

Jean Paul Sartre says that ‘Hell is other people!’ In the name of completing this sentence we must also say this: ‘Heaven is other people too!

If someone lives in New York, he's a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world.

Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people.

No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.

I don't have a favourite book, I have hundreds.

The border between the natural and the supernatural, religion and philosophy, may not always be clear. But there are lines and we should know and accept which side of it we are on.

I have the strength to remain calm in the face of change.

The only way to write a novel is to proceed as if you had all the time in the world.

Will someone please explain to me the logic that says we can trust someone with a Boeing 747 in bad weather, but not with a Glock 9mm?