Your ideas come out of the way you conduct your life.

The full weight and mystery of your art rests upon your relationship to your subject matter.

How do you find a way to say what an extraordinary experience it is to be alive in this world? That is the kind of subject matter I try to work with.

I'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture.

I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs".

I don't just look at the thing itself or at the reality itself; I look around the edges for those little askew moments-kind of like what makes up our lives-those slightly awkward, lovely moments.

The raw materials of photography are light and time and memory.

Sharpness is overrated.

I want to be made better personally. That is the gig.

I don't think science is necessarily incompatible with mystical or spiritual sensibilities. I often weigh them equally in my thinking, which sometimes finds itself into the work.

You are lucky if you have one or two epiphanies in your life, particularly a creative one.

It seems to me that really crazy people don't think they're crazy. Why would you?

I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.

The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic.

The more you know the less the better.

There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser.

I wrote the book [Today Matters] because I have a passion to help people personally grow. Really what it is, it's a personal growth book.

The harm done to Israel is damage done to the West. And delegitimizing Israel is a delegitimization of the West.

Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you're letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort.

We are all sure of two things, at least; we shall suffer and we shall all die.

Never before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were.