Death makes us sad, but it can also make us feel more alive.

The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.

I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in. I remember reading a Robert Bly book of poetry.

At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.

I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination.