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.

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

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.

What we think and love persistently will be what we become.

The way he said it, with a twinkle in his already too-twinkly blue eyes, made Aimee feel twinkly, too.

God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.

The wind kicks in stronger, branches clatter. Or maybe skeletons. Bones of abandonment. Ghosts that will never be.

The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in a band.

Sometimes, the loneliness probably got to be too much and anyone seemed better than no one.

I've finally graduated from 'I don't give a hoot.

When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave him birth, will respond.

The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to make him wise forever.

You get to do things for people who will never pay you back and they say you never have had a perfect day until you've done something for someone who will never pay you back.