As an artist I have always felt that my task is not to create meaning but to charge the air so that meaning can occur.

I believe you can use photographs to meditate on and work through things in your life.

I have learned to consciously avoid letting that thought, It's been done, enter my creative process. You have to try not to edit yourself before you actually shoot.

I photograph like a documentarian, but I print like a painter

If you get one photograph that's good from a trip, that's plenty.

Don't be shy, dear. I'm too old for you to be embarrassed by me.

true giving lies not in receiving but in giving

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

Okay, so you want your other nipple pierced," she said pulling up a chair and getting her supplies ready. "She wants my other nipple pierced," he replied winking at.

I keep on fighting as long as my opponent can make a mistake.

A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.

The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down.

The main message of it is to not get stagnant and that God wants us to continue to grow and become a better person.

America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'

Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention.