I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.

My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make.

Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.

A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.

Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.

For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.

Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.

Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.

What is it that would make a creature as fierce, majestic and powerful as a lion is, subject itself to the intimidation of a man a whip and a chair? The lion has been taught to forget what it is.

... life wasn't full of problems, it was rich with decisions.

Lust is the difference between loving someone and being in love with someone.

There is something that's a great deal more important than parental approval: learning to do without it. That's what it means to become an adult.

She says his eyes address her like the silence of the snow.

You have to wake up a virgin each morning.

I've never looked at my career in terms of, What haven't I done that I want to do? I just generally find a story that I think is a good one and go to work

I don't think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.

We could also say that there is only one real kind of poverty: not living as children of God and brothers and sisters of Christ.