Some of my best work is done when I'm half asleep.

I don't go out looking for pictures. I go out, and if something catches my eye, that's reason enough to photograph it.

It can happen anytime, anywhere. I mean, you don't have to be in front of stuff that's going to make a good photograph. It's possible anywhere.

I actually try and work before my mind is telling me what to do.

In a still photograph you basically have two variables, where you stand and when you press the shutter. That's all you have.

[The photographer's task] is to describe the existing light... Chances are, if you believe the light, you're going to believe that the things photographed existed in the world.

Life doesn’t just happen to you. You react to it, and you are not forced to react the way you do. Your heart determines your reactions.

When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.

I'm worried about greenwashing. I think we should come down on it very, very hard, whether it's with criminal intent or actively deceptive.

Inter have bought the finished article and there's no doubt he can keep improving.

I think that the heart is a lot like those wonderful fruit, like coconut and mangoes, you know, you have to break the skin, you have to break it open to get to the good part.

But most days, I wander around feeling invisible. Like I'm a speck of dust floating in the air that can only be seen when a shaft of light hits it.

An excellent introduction to the rise and fall of the British Raj, accurate, succinct, and engaging.

Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.

Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.