Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.

I can get obsessed by anything if i look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

Working on photography is working on oneself.

I myself have always stood in the awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.

Photographing a cake can be art.

I always thought we were selling dreams, not clothes

What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.

I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.

Sometime in 1964 I realized that I was a victim of a printmaking obsession, a condition that persists today.

The printed page seems to have come to something of a dead end for all of us.

Flora would have liked to ask her parents why the words ‘to father’ have such a different meaning from the words ‘to mother’.

The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

'Do you think that we shall ever be admitted as a State into the Union without denying the principle of polygamy?' If we are not admitted until then, we shall never be admitted.

Plus, I grew up with Steve Cropper. There were so many good guitar players another one wasn't needed. What was needed was a bass.

There are other times. There are other adventures. There are other dreams .

You can live in the world and have all the myriad experiences that life has to offer and yoke your awareness field to the planes of light, and eventually to nirvana itself.

Important decisions are risky. They should be controversial. Acclamation means that nobody has done the homework.

Tomorrow or the next life - which comes first, we never know.