The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.

Airplanes have dulled and desensitized us; we are encumbered, like lovers in a suit of armor.

The biggest surprise was that a country like Angola, that has so much money, that produces so much oil, would be in such a mess and so difficult to travel in. Something is almost cursed in striking oil. It's like the lottery winner who ends up broke.

People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books.

A gun show is about like-minded people who feel as if everything has been taken away from them - jobs, money, pride.

When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there.

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.