I think what makes a picture is a moment that is completely spontaneous and natural and unaffected by the photographer.

You are not just a photojournalist, you're a historian.

Reporters listen, photographers look. If you are doing your job seriously as a photojournalist, your sight must be the primary sense that you use at all times.

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

Failure is a success if you learn from it.

Every relationship is different. Everyone loves differently.

All too often we fail to ask what we are trying to sustain. Ultimately, sustainability must be measured by the endurance of thriving human communities.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

Privilege is invisible to those who have it.

An idea is something you work on to make it work and a desire is much deeper in a way.

I think my prose - mine and that of others - sometimes slips into a cadence or rhythm that can replicate or come close to the music in a wonderful poem, and then it returns to the sound of prose.

Typically, in Westerns, people who are in a Western feel like they're in a Western. It's almost like they know they do all these Western things.

No, by my soul, I never in my life Did hear a challenge urged more modestly, Unless a brother should a brother dare To gentle exercise and proof of arms.