A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.

The world is full of fictional characters looking for their stories

Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

Take pictures of what you fear.

I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.

I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.

My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.

No one knows what goes down between a woman and her man except that woman. Only thing they know is what went down with their own men.

Grieving the loss of a loved one—whether human or animal—is not only permissible, it is essential.

Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me.

People often think that you have a sense of humor because you think that life is funny. Life isn't funny at all. It's appalling and tragic.

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures peace is our gift to each other.

We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child.

I have friends that are laying in the gutter right now that were rich people and they're no longer rich people because of what the banks did to them.

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

Luck and destiny are the excuses of the world's failures.

History breaks down into images, not into stories.