My memory of those places is better than my pictures. That's why I get much more satisfaction out of shooting thematic work that has to do with an idea that I'm searching for, or searching to express.

After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but is often true.

I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may.

Art, if it is successful, needs no explanation.

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

Other times, you're doing some piece of work and suddenly you get feedback that tells you that you have touched something that is very alive in the cosmos.

There are a lot of photographers who have influenced me; some of the great ones, like Herb Ritts, Helmut Newton, and [Alfred] Stieglitz. I draw from all of them. You're supposed to steal from the good ones.