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

“A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.”

“One thing that struck me early is that you dont put into a photograph whats going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in.”

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

“What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's.... That somebody else's tragedy is not the same as your own.”

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

“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 life. They're aristocrats.”

“His adolescents are displaced aristocrats who have lost their kingdom and wealth, which was childhood. [On J.D. Salinger]”

“The AristocratThe Devil is a gentleman, and asks you down to stayAt his little place at What'sitsname (it isn't far away).They say the sport is splendid; there is always something new,And fairy sce...”

“I'm proud to be a freak of nature.”

“It was a little weird that they were friends. But then, maybe freaks just tended to find each other.”

“If Stuart is a freak... it is because he has had the superhuman strength not to be defeated by this isolation. It is because he has had the almost unbelievable social adroitness to be able to fit i...”

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

“All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings theres too much corruption in the world ”

“Its only when youre at the bottom of the ladder that you ascend.”