I don't think I am going to do pictures which are anything like Renaissance art.

I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.

My desire is to preserve the sense of people’s lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them. I want the people in my pictures to stare back.

For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody - it's a caress… I think that you can actually give people access to their own soul.

I always thought if I photographed anyone or anything enough, I would never lose the person, I would never lose the memory, I would never lose the place. But the pictures show me how much I've lost.

Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.

I knew from a very early age, that what I saw on tv had nothing to do with real life. So I wanted to make a record of real life. That included having a camera with me at all times.

I just get inspired to take a picture by the beauty and vulnerability of my friends.

My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them.

I think the wrong things are kept private

My work shows the beauty in so many different kinds of people because I never photograph anyone who I don't think is beautiful. I never take an intentionally mean picture.

When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on.

All good and genuine draftsmen draw according to the picture inscribed in their minds, and not according to nature.

I've been operated on 13 times.

Forgivenesss: It's a miracle drug. It's God's miracle drug.

I think I could create a cult, no problem. The hard part is getting people to kill themselves.

Forgiveness is the path to healing.

As a kid, I loved storytelling, and I liked the way rappers would paint pictures.

The foolish undertake a trifling act, and soon desist, discouraged; wise men engage in mighty works, and persevere.

Please God, let me hit one. I'll tell everybody you did it.

I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.