The golden rule is work fast. As for framing, composition, focus-this is no time to start asking yourself questions: you just have to trust your intuition and the sharpness of your reflexes.

I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at that moment it made me happy to do so.

Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.

I have two pairs of eyes – one to paint and one to take photographs.

Photography is a magic thing. A thing that has mysterious odors, a little strange and frightening, something one quickly grows to love.

I have never taken a photograph without one thought in my head to amuse myself.

It's marvelous, marvelous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!

To talk about photos rather than making them seems idiotic to me. It's as though I went on and on about a woman I adored instead of making love to her.

Photography and writing are marvelous distractions from painting. I might even have found movies more interesting than photography. I tried it a bit, but not enough.

What’s so incredibly amusing with photography is that while seemingly an art of the surface, it catches things I haven’t even noticed. And it pains me not to have seen things in all their depth.

Life is not a popularity contest.

There is no way of making a business successful that can vie with the policy of promoting those who render exceptional service.

Inadequate use of usability engineering methods in software development projects have been estimated to cost the US economy about $30 billion per year in lost productivity.

I do remember the people who believed in me in the beginning. I'll never forget that.

Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.

Got to be the worst place in the world, inside a oven. You in here, you either cleaning or you getting cooked.

I believe that behind both the person who weighs 400 pounds and the one who weighs 85 there is a lot of baggage, and it has nothing to do with their bodies.

A 17-year-old girl in Australia hacked into my e-mail while I was on it, Then a 15-year-old girl in England did the same thing.

Curiosity is more flexible and practical than belief.

The records I always maintained were there to serve just one purpose - that was to be broken