I'm always afraid going into strange places, but I also choose carefully and listen to my instincts. These were men I could trust. I'm a pretty good judge of crazy versus sad. I prefer sad.

I'm interested in that hybrid - the place between the real world and my imagination. There's a friction that's created between the things we imagine and the things that exist.

I believe photography is about choosing to live, being brave. Looking is an act of courage. It's terrifying. It's possible to see too much, to witness things that we cannot hold.

Photography has saved my life, over and over again.

I believe that I am some sort of fiction writer and I'm using myself in my work because I'm the person I'm most convenient to use!

Tenderness and lust are just immature little brothers of love. Yes of course it was lust... but I'm not sure how evolved or resolved that lust was.

In general, I wait to be approached. I want to be the one who's hunted, I want to be the one who people take interest in.

What I love about photography is that nothing is really as it seems.

I would always say I'm doing a video project. About dancing or birthday parties. Of course, the video becomes more than that. It goes deeper than that. But it's not a lie. It's a starting point.

Sometimes it's good to get mad, sometimes it clarifies where we stand. I think that art has the ability to challenge and push, and that's great. That's better than great... it's necessary.

Every time I hear that somebody died I think of their body, on a steel table in a morgue somewhere. I think of how they can do nothing about it.

Let us reason according to the Scriptures.

Anything and everything is possible.

Do something today that reflects who you are, what you are capable of, what you care about. Give yourself plenty of evidence of what you can do, and you will not doubt your abilities to do anything.

I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.

Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule.

It is from the remembrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed.

He'd laugh in my face, then I'd slice him to ribbons and then he'd break my neck

You should look up some of the reviews. The New York Times review is so over-the-top funny. It's hysterical. You should dig it out.

Kings also sleep; but the clever ones, with one eye open, just like dolphins and whales

I look at myself and read what people say on the internet and some fans say the club should get rid of me - which shows how fickle some people can be.