What the eye sees is a synthesis of who you are and all you have learned. This is what I would call the language of photography.

The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves.

In the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world.

A photographer without imagination is not a good photographer.

I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself.

When I'm taking pictures I even forget that I have a camera. When I shoot I forget about everything. Light comes, death comes, people go in and out in costume - and it's like a play.

I never use a telephoto lens. I need to be close to people. I need their complicity; I need them to be aware that I am there taking their picture. I hate paparazzi.

I love poetry, be it in music or be it in Andrei Tarkovsky, Francesca Woodman or anyone else, I just love poetry.

As an artist you need to move on, you need to try new things.

In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a companion to the reality of the situation.

Though his death would not fill me with any sense of sadness, I would probably feel the loss. Even enemies are part of one.

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

We're in the space exploration business, and the outer solar system is a wild, wooly place. We haven't explored it very well.

What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand only imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must look at with humility.

A promise must never be broken.

The world has changed and it's going to keep changing, but God never changes; so we are safe when we cling to Him.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity.

God saves. Specifically he will save his people from their sins.

Hell hath no fury like a drag queen scorned.