I would like to go to Antarctica. That's about all.

That statement [ Stephen Ambrose:'You, Sam, have the hardest job, which is, pretend like nothing has happened in the last 200 years.'] woke me up to the fact that the landscape that Lewis and Clark came across was greater than the Serengeti. And it's gone.

Exotic novelty. My statement to [people] is always, well, set this picture in your home town, is it still an interesting picture? Or is it just exotic? Would I care about this same picture minus its exoticism?

I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation.

There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on.

A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.

A very big part of the life of a photograph is the afterlife.