Shoot for the secrets, develop for the surprises

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 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.

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.

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.

Learn to visualize for inspiring creativity, and make imagination rolling into reality.

The best compliment someone can give me is stealing my idea and making it their own.

I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.

Schools attempt to take credit for what occurs naturally, and blame others for the negative consequences of institutionalization.

What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.

Harry, I've left a letter telling your aunt and uncle not to worry--" "They won't," said Harry. "That you're safe--" "That'll just depress them." "--and you'll see them next summer." "Do I have to?

If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

It is part of a sailor's life to die well.