I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

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

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.

You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.

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

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

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.

The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.

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.

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.

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.

I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.

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.

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.

Photographing a culture in the here and now often means photographing the intersection of the present with the past.

Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.

If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.

Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot.

I think in general I've never dared compose in Spanish. First of all, it is such an intricate language.

I absolutely love writing about the things that scare me, the things that keep me up at night. I don't quite know why. Perhaps because so many things do scare me, and this is my subconscious way of trying to exercise some control over things that go bump in the night!

I know you're supposed to hide your influences, but I suppose I see writing as riffing, really, about whatever you have been reading or thinking about that day or that week.

I've always liked the tradition of publishing work serially in the comic-book 'pamphlet' format and then collecting that work in book form, so I've just stuck with it.

I feel like I go through cycles as an actress.

The best revenge you can get on your ex is to move on and let them see you happy with someone that treats you better than they did

Although it's the second largest country in the world, our useful area has been reduced. Our immigration policy is disgusting: We plunder southern countries by depriving them of future leaders, and we want to increase our population to support economic growth.

Don’t say you don’t have enough time or enough money to change the world. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Gandhi, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci and Jesus Christ.

The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.

The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.

It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle.

Unlike New Zealand, which has nothing especially predatory, Australia is full of spiders and crocodiles and all kinds of animals that will eat you and sting you.

I have a greater goal - to empower young people through music education.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing in great crises to give even his life knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

SpaceX is a flat organization. Anyone gets to talk to anyone, and the best idea wins - even if it comes from an intern.

My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing.

Adele is great because she promotes the idea of being happy as you are.

It's just a morale thing. The other names have been kicking around so long. It's much more about trying to keep focused and keep some excitement around where they are going.

Jim mentioned I was an ALEC member, and that's correct.

I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.