If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that's a good picture.

Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths.

I'm not a great believer in the power of the moving image. A still image has greater lasting power.

Fear not a thousand accusing fingers, if you are right.

The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera.

All that a Pulitzer really does is give the obit writers something to put between the commas after your name.

Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as "armed teens"?

I think that first love defines you and your relationships, for the rest of your life. I had a great first love. My heart was ripped out of my chest, but I think that happens to everyone.

If you help and serve others, you will ultimately gain.

The gifts of an honorable, well-lived life are in those who will miss you once you're gone.

I accept relationship as my primary teacher about myself, other people, and the mysteries of the universe.

Of course she is a fool, but so are all girls.

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.

It would be hard to say that exactly, but antinatalism is a reality in my life, not just an interesting idea. I can feel it in the chilled and weary marrow of my bones.

Makes us appreciate blessing, not be greedy and mean and fat like Polyphemus.

The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art.