It would be beautiful to photograph the winners of everything from Nobel to booby prize, clutching trophy, or money or certificate, solemn or smiling or tear stained or bloody, on the precarious pinnacle of the human landscape.

I mean, it's very subtle and a little embarrassing to me, but I really believe there are things which nobody would see unless I photographed them.

These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.

[Our self-image is] that gap between intention and effect

I think all families are creepy in a way.

It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, "All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up." And they did.