I had so many unsold murder pictures lying around my room...I felt as if I were renting out a wing of the City Morgue.

It's been a strange [summer].... I was sent by a magazine to photograph famous photographers.... Of course, I included myself.

People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.

What I did, anybody can do.

Anyone who looks for life can find it... and they don't need to photograph ashcans. The average camera fan reminds me of Pollyanna, with a lollypop in one hand and a camera in the other. You can't be a Nice Nelly and take news pictures.

My name is Weegee. I'm the world's greatest photographer.

There are photographic fanatics, just as there are religious fanatics. They buy a so-called candid camera there is no such thing: it’s the photographer who has to be candid, not the camera.