At first, my presence in my photos was fascinating and disturbing. But as time passed and I was more a part of other ideas in my photos, I was able to add a giggle to those feelings.

I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this much fun. I imagined something much less elusive, much more mundane.

You don’t have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at YOU.

I retired from everything except work.

... photographs are so loaded with information. They're remarkable. As I said, you get both the tree and the forest.

The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue.

Photographs also show the way that the camera sees. It's not just me or you or anybody else. The camera does something that is different from our own setting.

Photography is a generous medium.

The world makes up my pictures, not me.

If one really knew what one was doing, why do it? It seems to me if you had the answer why ask the question? The thing is there are so many questions.

... a mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'.

Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored.

Unseen, one summer eve, you kissed me in four places.

I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.

A social impact bond is a new way of bringing financing into social and environmental support issues.

Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.

All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.

I long for typical days, but rarely get them any more.

A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance.

I respect a woman too much to marry her.

Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.