From Mother you will inherit the belief that you can journey to your fate, there's a place to be located on a map that's destiny. If only you can get there. If it isn't too late. If no one stops you.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

And they can’t understand, what hurts more— Missing the other person, or pretending not to.

...she wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant.

Life is a republic where the individuals are for the most part unconscious that while they are working for themselves they are also working for the public good.

Change is hard, but change is good.

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be very cultural, but it's not acceptable.

I had to work my way up to be where I am now. All these companies could have done the same.

I love being in the studio. If I'm at home, I will go to the studio pretty much every day anyway. It's just something that I like to do.

I always wanted to photograph the universal subjects.

Only America makes you feel that everybody wants to be like you. That's what success is: Everybody wants to be like you.

Galleries are nice to me. I sign a lot of autographs.