I was able to work with two heads. If anything, doing ads and other commercial work were at least exercises in discipline.

No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.

Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

Create in me a clean heart O God.

I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life's work shows our children that we don't chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

Some have brains, and some haven't, and there it is.

I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.

History teaches us that the capacity for things to get worse is limitless.

I like to hike and play with my dogs and spend time with my family. We go out to family dinners a lot.

The glory of God is a human being fully alive; and to be alive consists in beholding God.

The virtue of Yankee upbringing spiritually speaking is of more downright value to me than any past heritages.

Difficult people are the greatest teachers.

A friend of mine drowned in a bowl of muesli. A strong currant pulled him in.