All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot.

I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?

Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.

Color is joy. One does not think joy. One is carried by it.

A picture is the expression of an impression

We all would love sometimes to be free from our own knowledge. It is even the most difficult to unlearn - as the most important problems are.

Decide for yourself what kind of works you want to create... facts, essays, poems - do you want to speak or to sing?

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty pains and when it pained most, I shot.

There are almost too many possibilities. Photography is in direct proportion with our time: multiple, faster, instant. Because it is so easy, it will be more difficult.

Where were we? I've forgotten. He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever.Right. Yes. The usual choices.

... the novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture.

I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans.

The underground and the alternative is going to be substituted with being a virus.

We have to prepare our cities for the increasing scarcity of resources by increasing their density and energy efficiency.

Elvis Presley was the sweetest, most humble and nicest man you'd want to know.

Heaven and hell are not geographical, they are psychological, they are your psychology.

My mom was always active. She was always an active voter, whether it was local, state, or federal elections. My mom would take us to polling locations when we were kids.

I've never made any effort to hide what happened. I served my time, I've tried to learn and move on.

If I am unable to make the gods above relent, I shall move hell.