The world is full of fictional characters looking for their stories

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.

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.

My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.

It is better to pray than panic.

Technology is grey. More technology, less colors. We're building a world with colors only in poems.

If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

Your words are building blocks of which you construct your life and future.

Egotism is such a terrible disease, he dies, to be reincarnated he continues coming and going.

our lives change in two ways :through the people we meet and the books we read

There is no direct evidence, so how could you ask me to believe in God.

... it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.

I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So performing was always part of what I was.

None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.