Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Camera phones threaten to turn everyone into amateur paparazzi. We are witnessing our personal space shrink because of the way technology is being used.

Pay and the story rolls. Steal and the story folds. No stealing from the blind newsboy.

For me, documentary photography has always come with great responsibility. Not just to tell the story honestly and with empathy, but also to make sure the right people hear it. When you photograph somebody who is in pain or discomfort, they trust you to make sure the images will act as their advocate.

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

I don't mind fans coming up in a friendly, respectful way. That's all part of the fun of being a top tennis player. But if people take pictures without permission, particularly if my children are in the shot, I feel uncomfortable.

My only rule: I never photographed the face of the dead, ever, out of respect for the families.

I've been careful to keep my life separate because it's important to me to have privacy and for my life not to be a marketing device for a movie or a TV show. I'm worth more than that.

It's cool when people know you more, but I like people to treat me regular when they see me. I take pictures. I don't really be big on people looking at me.

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

I insist that the commandment, "Thou shalt not steal," applies as much to the monopolist as to the highwayman.

A fisherman, say, working on a beach doing his job, may be photographed by a tourist because it's photogenic to see him working, and the Caribbean is extremely photogenic, so poverty is photogenic, and a lot of people are photographed in their poverty, and sometimes it's kind of exploited.

We had to pose with towels wrapped around us, holding rubber rings, that sort of thing. The turning point came when a photographer asked us to get on a fur rug and crawl like cats. We said no, because it was sexist and disrespectful.

I personally couldn't care less who's in the stall next to me as long as I don't have to see what you're doing in there.

Can I come in? No! I'm in a towel! I'm blind!

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have.

There are those who'd rob a blind man of his eyelashes if they could.

I accept that all photography is voyeuristic and exploitative, and obviously I live with my own guilt and conscience. It's part of the test and I don't have a problem with it.

Disobedience to conscience makes conscience blind.

I can't be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)

These women of mine are decent, simple human beings who have no other concern than that of their physical condition... it is as though one were watching through a keyhole.

The soul of a murderer is blind

When I would work freelance in production in Chicago, there were a lot of times when I was working for cheap, bad people, and I was working for slave wages anyway, so there were some times when I might have filled out a couple of blank taxi receipts and kept some petty cash. But like I say, I was very selective. It was only people that I thought were assholes. The people that I liked I went far and above saving them money, much less taking it. But that's it. I'm pretty moral. I don't even like stealing jokes.

We're not talking about a few rooms here with delicate personal matters involved.

When we call something unfair or indecent or unconscionable or evil, when we speak of mercy and pity and compassion, those words have meaning, regardless of our particular faith or moral philosophy. They appeal to common standards we all are expected to understand and accept, standards without which we could not live any common life at all.

Therefore the blind Jews are truly stupid fools.