Increasingly, it's people not interested in National Geographic.

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.

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.

If we believe in the Blessed Saviour, we shall be saved.

The ultimate profit of all businesses should be happiness.

Although it's good to have talent, character is so much important because bad character is an enemy of great talent.

In acceptance, I am grounded. In vulnerability, I am strong. In love, I am whole.

It's when you don't need something that you tend to lose it.

It is true that the present is powerfully shaped by the past. But it is also true that ... insight at any age keeps us from singing the same sad songs again.

All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

Southern women like their men religious and a little mad.

Being positive does not mean ignoring the negative. Being positive means overcoming the negative.

Stick with me, kids. It's about to get so good... -A