My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history.

The camera is the eye of history.

No one will ever know what I went through to secure those negatives. The world can never appreciate it. It changed the whole course of my life.

From the first, I regarded myself as under obligation to my country to preserve the faces of its historic men and mothers

I had to go. A spirit in my feet said 'go,' and I went.

Those who love dogs, know something about God.

When I looked at myself through the prism of awareness, great tears came as I connected with how this wounded child felt.

If you really want to know me, I said, we'll have to start with the witches.

History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.

Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.

You can achieve only that which you will do.

When we think we have something to say we are usually wrong. We are fooling ourselves. Trip into discovery. Don't write what you know, discover something new.

Remember, the only difference between 'marital' and 'martial' is where you put the 'i'.

When I saw all of the people I have known all these years, when we got together, it was scary because B.B King and I lived in the same place in Nevada.

They've kicked our backsides, we've got to lick our wounds...