Photography is about savoring life at 1/100th of a second.

Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.

Photography cannot change the world, but it can show the world, especially when it changes.

Rather than a profession, photography has always been a passion for me, a passion closer to an obsession.

For me photography is not an intellectual process. It is a visual one.... Whether we like it or not, we are involved in a sensual business.

The eye is made to see and not to think.... A good photograph is a surprise. How could we plan and foresee a surprise? We just have to be ready.

Choice or freedom of choice is just an existential concern. But for photographers, it's a lifetime's preoccupation.

I'm often asked: Did you get what you wanted? But how should I know what I wanted? A photo is an encounter, a surprise.

Doubt always hovers nearby, but I take photographs the way a musician hums. Looking is like breathing. So when luck turns my way and offers me a good picture, joy is surely nigh.

My first reaction at the very idea of this interview was to refuse to talk about photography. Why dissect and comment a process that is essentially a spontaneous reaction to a surprise?

We try and reflect that there's a lot of optimism, there's a lot of positive things that are happening in 'Silicon Valley'.

I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.

Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks.

When Fidel Castro is gone, there will be hope for Cuba. There will be opportunity for Cuba.

We can't say what enlightenment is, we can't say what it isn't, because these are words and words have nothing to do with reality.

In adopting the republican form of government, I not only took it as a man does his wife, for better, for worse, but, what few men do with their wives, I took it knowing all its bad qualities.

My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.

The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.

I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.