There are days when simply seeing feels like happiness itself....You feel so rich, the elation seems almost excessive and you want to share it

If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.

I don't photograph life as it is, but life as I would like it to be.

Life is short. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly.

The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.

A photographer who made a picture from a splendid moment, an accidental pose of someone or a beautiful scenery, is the finder of a treasure.

For a photographer, the first 70 years are a bit difficult, but after that things get better.

To suggest is to create; to describe is to destroy.

If you take photos, don't speak, don't write, don't analyze yourself, and don't answer any questions.

A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there-even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.

I prefer my hesitations, my false paths, my stammering, to a preconceived idea.

The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.

I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.

Only when a disputed point has long caused bloodshed and disturbance, or when a successful invader (military or theological) insists on a change, is it necessary to draw up a code.

The goal is to talk about the issues that are happening in the USA with the ultimate goal of making change. Not just some rebellious act that we're trying to have against our country.

If you eat food or produce, you should take into account where that food comes from.

America is about choices, including those to live certain lifestyles.

When I talk to idiots, I get loud!

The United States being in Asia is unambiguously a good thing for the region.

Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway. Guildenstern: What? Rosencrantz: England. Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?

A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu.