I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.

The world is full of fictional characters looking for their stories

Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

Take pictures of what you fear.

I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.

My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.

The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.

Family's the most important thing.

How a minority Reaching majority Seizing authority Hates a minority!

There will always be excuses, arguments, and questions of timing when moving on difficult and controversial issues.

You cannot separate the onset of a disturbing moment in life from the appearance of some simultaneous new possibility to know a deeper and more unshakable sense of peace.

As an adult, I can't blame my parents any more.

Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise.

In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'

I think that Brighton, for a crime writer, is almost like a character.

When you are tough on yourself, life is inevitably easy. When you are easy on yourself, life will be inevitably difficult.