This is what happened when one left one's home - pieces of oneself scattered all over the world, no one place ever completely satisfied, always a nostalgia for the place left behind.

Pictures could not be accessories to the story -- evidence -- they had to contain the story within the frame; the best picture contained a whole war within one frame.

She did not think it was true that women fell in love all at once, but rather, that they fell in love through repitition, just the way someone became brave.

What was the point of living through history if you didn't record it?

Why did someone fall in love with you because you are one thing and then want you to be something else?

Sometimes you have to fulfill a promise in order to deserve the love you're given.

The hardest thing was to give meaning to what appeared to have none.

Too many heroes in my life. All gone.

Clear now that she was as dependent as any addict on the drug of the war. He had underestimated the damage in her.

A woman sees war differently.

Saigon in utter darkness this last night of the war. A gestating monster. Her letter to Linh had been simple: I love you more than life, but I had to see the end.

When “We’ve always done it that way” is replaced with “Let’s try something new, ” associations will leap to greatness.

It is true I little respect women or girls who are loquacious either in boasting the triumphs, or bemoaning the mortifications, of feelings.

Christmas is supported through celebration, joyfully passed on - from generation to generation.

I think I've got a funny face.

A revolution simply means great change, significant change, and that's how I'm defining it - great change for the better, brought about through non-violent means.

A way of life that keeps saying 'Around the next corner, above the next step,' works against the natural order of things and makes it so difficult to be happy and good.

It's fun leading this offense. I don't think we've hit our peak.

Only the dead have no troubles.

Photography is one big scrapbook of your life.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.