...photography is made essentially of time. I often think that what we show is a point in time, more than a window onto space.

To me, photography is not just a visual art, but something closer to poetry - or at least to some poetry, such as the haiku.

Photography is the art of not pushing the button.

There's this idea that photography is a kind of testimony and therefore we're forbidden to tell lies with it. I think that's nonsense. Photography isn't testimony.

Don't aim to be a perfect being

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

Maybe he would see me as weak and stupid. Maybe he was right.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow.

I think by not participating in the current political debate, hopefully I'm sending a signal that will help set a tone.

Plan B?' Ivy said. 'What is plan B?' Jenks reddened. 'Grab the fish and run like hell,' he muttered, and I almost giggled.

Why live for the approval of men when you can have the approval of their Creator? What can they give you that God can't?

It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.

Do the right things instead of trying to do everything right.

It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.