If you want to be a creative person, then you’re gonna have to be creative in how you put your career together. There isn’t a path. Part of the creativity is making your path.

I fell in love with the process of taking pictures, with wandering around finding things. To me it feels like a kind of performance. The picture is a document of that performance.

I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to fill in.

The people that I photographed allowed me to photograph them because they didn't want to be alone, and the truth is I didn't want to be alone making the pictures.

Photography is a very lonely medium. There’s a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And that’s why I’m a photographer.

I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film.

[Photography is] very related to poetry. It's suggestive and fragmentary and unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It's as much about what you leave out as what you put in.

For me, the act of photography is all about discovery and finding new things.

For me, photography is as much about the way I respond to the subject as it is about the subject itself.

Nobody really wants to be alone. People need people.

Photography, for me, is a lot like web surfing in real life.

Success is Never Ending, Failure Is Never Final.

All employees have an innate desire to contribute to something bigger than themselves.

Lobbying is the world's second - oldest profession.

Trust in the person's promise who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.

I didn't wake up one day and say, you know, 'Supply-side economics doesn't make sense.

Success in life is measured, most easily, by the number of days that a person is truly happy.

Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation.

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

Nelson Mandela once said "I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I'm not going to protest."

The president should stop apologizing, stop being defensive. The reality is the NSA has saved thousands of lives not just in the United States but in France, Germany and throughout Europe.