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.

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

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

Everything okay?”“I’m not sure, but it’s not shittier, so that’s something.”She laughed. “Still an optimist.

You drift through life and let things happen to you, or go by design and say, 'This is what I'm intended to do.'

How hard, how desperately hard, is the way of the experimenter in art!

And we believe in his promises. Therefore you can never lose hope - hatikva - because if you keep hope alive, it will keep you alive.

Not after the big bust in '92, there's no big drug lifestyle anymore. I can't talk about it. Pretty ugly.

To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation.

All important things in art have always originated from the deepest feeling about the mystery of Being.

I do play drums when I'm on tour.

Authors frequently say things they are unaware of; only after they have gotten the reactions of their readers do they discover what they have said

You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else.