The camera is cruel, so I try to be as good as I can to make things even.

For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.

What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something to do with the paper and the developer and all that stuff, but it comes mostly from some very deep choices somebody has made that take a long time and keep haunting them.

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.

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

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.

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