I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many the camera alone would be enough.

I see pictures all the time. I could stay for hours and watch a raindrop.

The important thing is not the camera but the eye.

Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.

Yes, I sold buttons to earn living. But I took pictures to keep on living. Pictures are my life – as necessary as eating or breathing.

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

In a photograph a person’s eyes tell much, sometimes they tell all.

Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead!

I seldom think when I take a picture. My eyes and fingers react - click. But first, it's most important to decide on the angle at which your photograph is to be taken.

We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.

I do not know what to do with the emotions inside me. I do not know how to be this close to someone and still hold on to myself.

Be hard on yourself, easy on others.

Atheist n. A person to be pitied in that he is unable to believe things for which there is no evidence, and who has thus deprived himself of a convenient means of feeling superior to others.

Don't wrench your shoulder out of its socket trying to pat yourself on the back," Beldin said sourly.

When in doubt, ATTACK!

The feminist movement has spent 30 years putting down the role of stay-at-home moms and trying to tell young women that only someone who is mentally disabled would pick that for a career.

The comics are where all the crazy subconscious stuff comes out.

I don't know anyone who is not using drugs for the reason that they're illegal.

It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.

The psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race.