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

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.

The Chinese have a theory that you pass through boredom into fascination and I think it's true. I would never choose a subject for what it means to me or what I think about it. You've just got to choose a subject - and what you feel about it, what it means, begins to unfold if you just plain choose a subject and do it enough.

The discouragement masquerades as the impossibility.

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

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

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