I think I have been able to eliminate the idea of a third person: the Intruding Photographer.

Am I looking at a mask or am I the mask being looked at?

I found out that I could not choose a subject, throw it out of focus, and then have a good picture. I found that I had to learn to see No-focus from the beginning.

I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form of religion or imagination.

I want to get people to read stone, tree, so forth & so on through the construction of the picture, to lead them to these things exactly as if it were written out on a page. I think it can be done.

I like the obvious statement, although some people might wish to think they aren't there, that they will go away with time.

Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions. You either make them or they're made for you, but you can't avoid them.

There were many things they simply didn't talk about: between them, silence was not so much a form of evasion as a way for solitary people to exist in a family.

I was never able to accept anyone else’s support but my own –

My only thought was to keep him away from Annabeth.

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.

They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things.

I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.

Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore - but to practice.