I did not want to leave the Mets and I did not want to leave New York.

A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.

Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to.

In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much prefer to drink coffee, listen to music and to paint when I feel like it.

I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture. I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I do.

There are the things that are out in the open and then there are the things that are hidden, and life has more to do, the real world has more to do with what is hidden, maybe. You think?

The important thing in life is not what you get, but what you throw out.

Seeing is a neglected enterprise.

I don’t have a philosophy. I have a camera.

When we do not know why the photographer has taken a picture and when we do not know why we are looking at it, all of a sudden we discover something that we start seeing. I like this confusion.

If I’d only known which [photographs] would be very good and liked, I wouldn’t have had to do all the thousands of others.

smell is one of the key to unlock our momories

It seemed to him that the little Manchu had never looked so radiant. She gave him a most charming smile, but her eyes were all for the boy.

After the brain surgery, I started the hard process of recovery.

Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them.

I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same time zone.

Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that's crazy.

The church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought.

Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life that can be separated from the rest; it is the control of the means for all our ends.

The strange thing is I never thought I'd do films.

Young adults that actually read are reading bodice rippers and best-sellers and me. And Horror.