Certainly, you know, you can always learn from some - from somebody else's - from some intelligence. I think. I hope.

No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.

Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

What does our commitment to nonviolence mean as citizens of one of the most powerful and oppressive nations in recorded history?

Compassion is born from the imagination. To have the desire to be compassionate, you have to imagine a world that’s better than the one you live in.

Not every secret must be solved

You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.

I might grow old in Brisbane, but I would never grow up.

Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history.

The clear, unmistakable sign of a bureaucrat is somebody who worries about whether he has a window.

Education is a vast sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot theorizing, and careerist log-rolling.

I gravitate toward the team thing. I'm not a golfer - I much prefer basketball.