If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.

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.

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

I used to have this notion when I was a kid that the minute you said anything, it was no longer true. Of course it would have driven me crazy very rapidly if I hadn't dropped it, but there's something similar in what I'm trying to say. That once it's been done, you want to go someplace else. There's just some sense of straining.

The world is full of fictional characters looking for their stories

There's a kind of power thing about the camera. I mean everyone knows you've got some edge. You're carrying some magic which does something to them. It fixes them in a way.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.