Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.

You can't rely on your own perception when it comes to anything. You can always be proved wrong.

I'm particularly interested in how you can't rely on your own perception.

Celebrities do look different in real life from our images of them - there is a big gap. And that is what my work is about: the gap between the image and the celebrity themselves.

A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about.

And I figured that he can be my ears and I can be his eyes. A good trade-off, don't you think?

I don't really like using ridicule as a form of humor.

Do not live for emptiness, do not waste your evaporating life pursuing the vanities of life.

When they see you down get up on your feet and try again

I die with a joyful heart in the knowledge of our infinite achievements and of a contribution unique in the history that bears my name.

Who are the rabble and who are the ruled?

The universe is a matrix. It's a doorway into itself. But that doorway remains invisible if you don't have enough energy flowing through you.

Some battles are won with swords and spears, others with quills and ravens.

I think the best partner you can have is someone who makes you want to be the best form of yourself.

I'm so hyper. (said with a very dull voice>

But trailing clouds of glory do we come, From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!.

In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.