I'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture.

The full weight and mystery of your art rests upon your relationship to your subject matter.

How do you find a way to say what an extraordinary experience it is to be alive in this world? That is the kind of subject matter I try to work with.

I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs".

I don't just look at the thing itself or at the reality itself; I look around the edges for those little askew moments-kind of like what makes up our lives-those slightly awkward, lovely moments.

The raw materials of photography are light and time and memory.

Sharpness is overrated.

I want to be made better personally. That is the gig.

Your ideas come out of the way you conduct your life.

I don't think science is necessarily incompatible with mystical or spiritual sensibilities. I often weigh them equally in my thinking, which sometimes finds itself into the work.

You are lucky if you have one or two epiphanies in your life, particularly a creative one.

Don't trust your head, Samwise, it is not the best part of you.

A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.

What millions died - that Caesar might be great!

I always wanted to do a baseball book; I love baseball. The problem is that a very large part of my following is in non-baseball playing countries.

There is only one word to describe football and that is 'if only'.

I never write fewer than sixteen headlines for a single advertisement.

My mother used to tell me: "You gotta smile more. Because if you don't smile, the way you look at people, they'll think you're mad at them."

Your system was liable to periodical convulsions, business crises at intervals of five to ten years, which wrecked the industries of the nation.

I am the lead on NBC's 'Siberia,' and I loved that experience.

When the balance is broken then everything includes itself in power, power into will, will into appetite. So appetite, aided by will and power, becomes a universal wolf, at last eating up itself.