What would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life.

Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.

I came from the outside, the rules of photography didn't interest me.

I was a make believe ethnographer: treating New Yorkers like an explorer would treat Zulus - searching for the rawest snapshot, the zero degree of photography.

I thought New York had it coming, that it needed a kick in the balls. When I returned to New York, I wanted to get even. Now I had a weapon, photography.

Anybody who pretends to be objective isn't realistic.

I have a special relationship with God. And when I take the right photograph, God gives me a little bing! in the camera. And then I know I'm on the right track.

Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.

Sleep is my only ally united by a dream treaty

I got my dog back, in African-American language, your dog means your passion, your fire.

How do you know you're even here right now? Perhaps you're not. Perhaps you're far, far away and this is just a dream.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

I do have big ambitions, but I think we all do. I just want to keep working hard and being happy.

First they use technology to poison the planet, then they develop it further to escape from the planet they have poisoned.

Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.