I came from the outside, the rules of photography didn't interest me.

Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.

What would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life.

I was a make believe ethnographer: treating New Yorkers like an explorer would treat Zulus - searching for the rawest snapshot, the zero degree of photography.

I thought New York had it coming, that it needed a kick in the balls. When I returned to New York, I wanted to get even. Now I had a weapon, photography.

Anybody who pretends to be objective isn't realistic.

I have a special relationship with God. And when I take the right photograph, God gives me a little bing! in the camera. And then I know I'm on the right track.

He [F. Scott Fitzgerald] had learned to theorize, to think, although he was always less interested in the dissection of his reading than in the enjoyment he received. (About F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

Even for the very best programmers ah, sometimes you'll see someone else's program or somebody will come along and they'll show you what can be done in a simpler way.

I think we all want to know where we came from and how we fit into the world, but some of us need to know how it all works in great detail.

Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place

The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.

Art and love survive war, revolution and death. Things continue. What we put into the earth while we are alive continues beyond us.

The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.

Spending practically every minute of your day on pure survival is an absolutely boring life.

Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness