I love poetry, be it in music or be it in Andrei Tarkovsky, Francesca Woodman or anyone else, I just love poetry.

The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves.

In the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world.

What the eye sees is a synthesis of who you are and all you have learned. This is what I would call the language of photography.

A photographer without imagination is not a good photographer.

I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself.

When I'm taking pictures I even forget that I have a camera. When I shoot I forget about everything. Light comes, death comes, people go in and out in costume - and it's like a play.

I never use a telephoto lens. I need to be close to people. I need their complicity; I need them to be aware that I am there taking their picture. I hate paparazzi.

As an artist you need to move on, you need to try new things.

In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a companion to the reality of the situation.

I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

We must school and train ourselves to deal personally with the unconverted. We must not excuse ourselves, but force ourselves to the irksome task until it becomes easy.

If we say something often enough, we come to believe it. We don't usually delude others until after we have first deluded ourselves.

I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting children than most.

People may think I'm wildly obnoxious.

How many times has He delivered me! Yet, alas! How distrustful and ungrateful is my heart even until the present!

I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.

People in the know say The Giver was the first young adult dystopian novel.

Always focus on the outcome of a desired act.