Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice..

The world is full of fictional characters looking for their stories.

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

It's important to take bad pictures. It's the bad ones that have to do with what you've never done before. They can make you recognize something you ….

I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse..

If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic..

Photography was a license to go wherever I wanted and to do what I wanted to do..

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know..

Shoot for the secrets, develop for the surprises.

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 thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way..

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind..

I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been..

Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see someone on the….

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

There's a kind of power thing about the camera. I mean everyone knows you've got some edge. You're carrying some magic which does something to them. ….

There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle..

For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture..

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in li….

We've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away..

I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself..