I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word.

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality.

The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler.

Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless.

The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.

The eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

Good photography is unpretentious.

That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.

It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.

Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.

Let your strength from the pastprovide proof of your abilities to . . .conquer the difficulties of the present.

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

There were three terrible ages of childhood - zero to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

It’s hard to feel attracted to someone who has abandoned her sense of autonomy.

Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics.

People doing the kind of sound research that I'm interested in still have a difficult time.

... there can be no real beauty without neatness and order.

My home is not a place, it is people.

Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.