Attempts by some teachers to adjust school curricula to incorporate programs that children watch on television suggest a new means of 'leading' children by running after them as quickly as possible.

You fill up the frame with feelings, energy, discovery, and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to get in there.

Making any statement of your feelings is risky. It's just like making pictures.

Photography is about being exquisitely present.

A lot of what I am looking for is a moment of astonishment, he says. Those moments of pure consciousness when you involuntarily inhale and say 'Wow!'

I have to say, taking photographs is such an instantaneous act. The recognition and the acting on the recognition, depending on your equipment, is close to instantaneous.

[The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy ... The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation.

Then I thought, Whoa. If there are no photographs, then there is no history. I'm going to get in there. I'm going to make these pictures. We need a record.

You must bring light to places of darkness.

Though I am a lot of things, most importantly I am human.

The emotional state that leads to achievements resembles that of a worshiper or the lover.

I wish I had been more mature. I wish I had handled the immediate aftermath of the accident involving my family better.

Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.

I don't want to be empty on the inside.

I'm not stupid, stupid. Leave this whole thing in my extremely capable and well-manicured hands. I'll call you later with an update. Bye!

Beckon The Sea, I'll Come To The.... Shed Seven Tears, Perchance Seven Years...

I don't like the stigma that comes with being called a poet . . . So I call what I'm doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue.