“Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.”

No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.

It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Photographers are always imposing.

I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.

In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.

Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.

In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

Sit, be still, and listen, because you’re drunk and we’re at the edge of the roof.

It’s true drinkin will kill ya, but if you’re drunk you don’t care.

It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.

We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing!

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.