What happens with experiences that really move us deeply, that really effect us? They make the world new again. What it does is it heightens our sense of mortality.

I was always amazed at how beautiful the light was. At different times of the day the landscape becomes a different place. Dawn and dusk, it's a different place.

You spend your whole life trapped inside your body. Everything you know about the world comes to you through your body.

It just struck me that one of the things about photography that made it such a compelling medium to deal with is that it is perhaps the most contradictory of mediums.

On practical level I can't pick up the camera until I think I know what I want. I don't wander around. It's almost impossible for me to pick up a camera... it's really hard.

Most of life is grey, with a little tiny bit of black and white.

You pick up a camera because something has been revealed to you in the landscape or in the human-scape. And you have no choice because it's a gift. And it's like, oh right, I better start doing this!

There are no inherent limitations to the medium. There are just differences.

There's something about the processional nature of the architecture, of the rooms connecting rooms. It's just breathtaking.

It was the dreamscape of the suburbs that interested me.

As a boy I was obsessed with Egypt and Egyptology. I'm convinced it's not that uncommon. A lot of 10 or 12 year old boys become obsessed with Egypt. It's a bit like young girls and horses.

You rob yourself of reaching your maximum potential and the best chance of success when you try to succeed alone.

I'm only happy when I forget to exist. When just my eyes or my ears or my skin exist.

The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation.

No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.

As Iraqi forces continue the liberation of Mosul, I'm pleased that NATO will be meeting the commitment we made in Warsaw to begin training additional forces in Iraq.

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity.

We'll be passing tax relief for small business owners and working families across the country.

Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never.