Rather than a profession, photography has always been a passion for me, a passion closer to an obsession.

Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.

Photography cannot change the world, but it can show the world, especially when it changes.

For me photography is not an intellectual process. It is a visual one.... Whether we like it or not, we are involved in a sensual business.

The eye is made to see and not to think.... A good photograph is a surprise. How could we plan and foresee a surprise? We just have to be ready.

Photography is about savoring life at 1/100th of a second.

Choice or freedom of choice is just an existential concern. But for photographers, it's a lifetime's preoccupation.

I'm often asked: Did you get what you wanted? But how should I know what I wanted? A photo is an encounter, a surprise.

Doubt always hovers nearby, but I take photographs the way a musician hums. Looking is like breathing. So when luck turns my way and offers me a good picture, joy is surely nigh.

My first reaction at the very idea of this interview was to refuse to talk about photography. Why dissect and comment a process that is essentially a spontaneous reaction to a surprise?

Broken hearts made faults and fools of us all.

If you lose yourself to rage in the complexity of battle, you are going to be lost.

If you want to change your hair colour or your nail colour or things like that its fine, but you have to realize the dangers and repercussions of surgery.

Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.

Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

You can’t kill history. You can’t shoot it with a bullet and watch it recede into whatever lies outside of memory. History is tougher than that—if it’s going to die, it has to die on its own

If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.

Engaging Iran won't guarantee improved U.S.-Iranian relations or a more stable Gulf region. But not engaging means more of the same.

How many persons fancy they have experience simply because they have grown old!