It's certainly important to include text beside documentary photographs. Furthermore, it's important to include text in a way that's useful and accessible.

I Love photographing. It’s that simple.

Good photographs aren't just complex. They are enigmatic. Images are beguiling. And the way they play into our psychology, into our visual cortex, is something we still don't understand.

We sort of understand how painkillers work. You take one, and it reduces your headache. We don't understand how photographs work. And that, to me, is an essential problem as a practitioner.

I love photographing. I love the experience of being around all the things that surround you when you go out to do work.

After my mother died, I lived with relatives. Reading was a means of escaping into other worlds, as photography, much later, was to become.

It's quite difficult to write about photography as a photographer. A lot of better photographers than me have declined to do it.

Flora would have liked to ask her parents why the words ‘to father’ have such a different meaning from the words ‘to mother’.

May the gods ignore you.

We actually grew closer as friends years later when we started doing personal appearances together. I stayed in touch with Andy [Griffith] and Don [Knotts] until they passed away.

It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.

If you make a mistake, it doesn't mean you're a mistake.

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

I suppose I’m the one responsible for destroying myself.

Science is incapable of supplying answers to ultimate questions about why things exist and what their purpose is.

Moi?” He put his hand over his heart and did his best wounded-innocent look. “You must be thinking of some other uncouth jackass. Which makes me jealous, by the way.