With young people everything is much more on the surface - all the emotions; when you get older you know how to hide things.

A photo is always a kind of lie. Truth is only present for a matter of a fraction of a second.

For me, the importance of photography is that you can point to something, that you can let other people see things. Ultimately, it is a matter of the specialness of the ordinary.

I don't need to know anything about the people I photograph, but it's important that I recognize something about myself in them.

As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality.

I felt that the beach portraits were all self-portraits. That moment of unease, that attempt to find a pose, it was all about me.

I do think that my work has gotten calmer, and that the violence of some of the earlier series was necessary to reach the higher degree of concentration in the later ones.

Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.

When nobody loves you, love yourself.

There are endless opportunities in life.

It takes more energy to be negative than positive for negativity is a burden carried." EL

Be positive, keep smiling and believe in the positive things You say To Yourself.

I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

I don't read polls to decide what I'm going to do.

Surrender, but don’t give yourself away.

Holy mother!" "Hmph. More like holy father. I'd think you'd know the difference." -Hephaetus

We must love one another. Only [by doing] so can our long years of toil and struggle reach full reward and we be crowned with life everlasting.