I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.

Finding the right subject is the hardest part.

Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality.

I'm interested in reality, and I'm interested in survival. I'm interested in people who aren't the lucky ones, who maybe have a tougher time surviving, and telling their story.

It’s not when you press the shutter, but why you press the shutter.

Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.

Reality is always extraordinary.

I’m just interested in people on the edges. I feel an affinity for people who haven’t had the best breaks in society. What I want to do more than anything is acknowledge their existence.

I was fascinated by my own prom pictures.

I respect newspapers but the reality is that magazine "photojournalism" is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.

A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit.

Poverty doesn't make parents unfit any more than wealth deems them appropriate.

Individuals are told to reduce our "carbon footprint, " and we should. But how many years of riding a bike to work would it take me to offset one F-15 flying for an hour?

No class of Americans, so far as I know, has ever objected . . . to any amount of governmental meddling if it appeared to benefit that particular class.

I really need people to take responsibility for the kind of energy they bring to me.

Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing.

We must lead in a different way... We must have an active president, who gives strong direction and works with the government for its implementation.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

In boxing, you don't know what's going to happen. In wrestling, it's already prearranged.

In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.

Sometimes if you have financial restraints, it's a benefit. It forces you to come up with a more creative way.