The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life. We have almost lost track of them.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face.

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

It was entirely silent and I tried to breathe its peace.

Often she felt as though she had been picked up and turned about like a kaleidoscope, that all her complacent assumptions had been shaken up and reassembled in a different order

I have long had this premonition of a bright day and a deserted house

There is no such thing as a simple act of compassion or an inconsequential act of service. Everything we do for another person has infinite consequences.

I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.

Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to say that could possibly qualify. So I wrote a romance instead.

We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.

Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane.

Every person on the face of the earth has a gift. In some this reveals itself spontaneously, others have to work to find it.