I wanted to meet the people, to get involved in the city, to make Tokyo mine.

When I photograph, I try to use my instincts as much as possible. It is when pictures are unconsidered and irrational that they come to life; that they evolve from showing to being.

I made a decision that to me, photography had to be something that I could feel. I could feel in my stomach. I could not take pictures that were not connected to my own inner life.

The most difficult thing for me is to take pictures from far away.

We give up on life so easily. It's time we stopped and started fighting for it!

Life is kinder to those who love themselves, because love attracts love and light, and repels and dispels darkness.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

Medicine is the study of disease and what causes man to die. Chiropractic is the study of health and what causes man to live.

Any simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado.

I am often asked why I write, and I don't know really--I just want to.

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.

Don't follow a trend. Follow your heart.

The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.