... photographs are so loaded with information. They're remarkable. As I said, you get both the tree and the forest.

I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this much fun. I imagined something much less elusive, much more mundane.

You don’t have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at YOU.

I retired from everything except work.

The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue.

Photographs also show the way that the camera sees. It's not just me or you or anybody else. The camera does something that is different from our own setting.

Photography is a generous medium.

The world makes up my pictures, not me.

At first, my presence in my photos was fascinating and disturbing. But as time passed and I was more a part of other ideas in my photos, I was able to add a giggle to those feelings.

If one really knew what one was doing, why do it? It seems to me if you had the answer why ask the question? The thing is there are so many questions.

... a mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'.

Self-confidence depends on environment: one does not speak in the same tone in the drawing room than in the kitchen.

A significant factor often overlooked by those considering the failure of drug policy is the general aim of deflecting or assigning responsibility away from the policy-makers and the ‘moral-majority.

I'm concerned that boys have become politically incorrect, that we are a society in the process of turning against its male children.

Don't try to understand me, just be grateful that you felt the warmth of Zaphod Beeblebrox's aura on your wonderstruck face.

People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

Every other creature on the planet is doing its best. Only human beings hesitate about that.

If I had wanted to be protected in a quiet job, I could have stayed at Porto. I would have been second, after God, in the eyes of the fans even if I had never won another thing.

If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute, and the people, legally speaking, are slaves.

The cost of procrastination is generally far greater than the cost of making mistakes.

I love the people,' I said. 'I have room in me for love, and for ever so many little lives.