My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.

I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.

One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.

Everyone has a point of view. Some people call it style, but what we're really talking about is the guts of a photograph. When you trust your point of view, that's when you start taking pictures.

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography.

A lot can be told from what happens in between the main moments.

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.

I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.

When you said we were clandestine I didn’t realize you meant literally underground, you could have warned me.

We weave together the many skeins of our words, Into poems and stories and books, And the books are made so much more vivacious and colourful, For all the care that is woven in along with the words.

I'm in California a lot; I go overseas sometimes and I meet more Hells Angels than other Angels do.

What makes man most unhappy is to be deprived not of that which he had, but of that which he did not have, and did not really know.

Its not always you get to hit the iron when it is hot. I believe in hitting it so hard, that it gets hot.

I was like most teenagers. I wanted to look more conventional - you know, to just be the pretty girl in school.

Untouchability is an error of long standing.

No one has ever lived who knows better than you the proper placement of footfalls on treacherous paths.

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding.

To persuade your enemy to (retreat) before the fight is to defeat them even before the battle begins. An enemy made ally is no longer an enemy.