All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.

You can show me some stick ice cream and I can tell you if it's good or not just looking at it.

The smoke and the fire and the speed, the action and the sound, and everything that goes together, [the steam engine] is the most beautiful machine that we ever made, there's just nothing like it.

The locomotives are black. The coal is black. The tracks are black. The night is black. So what am I going to do with color?

You can't move the sun, and you can't even move the tracks, so you have to do something else to better light the engines.

I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.

Winston, I don't know what I want, but I want you to go out and get it. When I see it, I'll know if it's what I thought I wanted. (Quoting a photography client.)

I was strong and healthy and I was enjoying what I was doing.

Better not to plant seeds of selfishness than try to eradicate them once they have grown into giant weeds. (91)

With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

For the majority of people liberty means only the system and the administrators they are used to.

Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb/I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from/Don't even hear a murmur of a prayer/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.

I don't know if you can tell, but I grew up watching a lot of television.

I don't consider myself a very religious person in any.

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

I'm not a politician; I am a singer. Long ago, they said, 'That one, she sings politics.' I don't sing politics; I merely sing the truth.

It's such a drag to make a movie.

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.