I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think.

The most important truth we tell is the truth we tell ourselves.

The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.

Yeah, I'm a geek. I read sci-fi and I watch sci-fi films. I love my computer and I love to fix it. I'm a total nerd. I literally am a 12-year-old geeky boy trapped in a 32-year-old woman's body.

The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.

It’s fun to watch someone like John Goodman, and yet it takes work. People say ‘he’s not acting, he’s being himself.’ Well it’s hard to be yourself, it’s the hardest job there is.

Nobody, 20 years ago, forecast the Internet.

I spend a lot of time alone so I get a lot done. I don't do much else but work, check things out.

I didn't get turned on, I just got turned. I wasn't as aroused as I was concerned.

Yes, I'm a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted and tough.