What I like so much about photography is precisely the moment that cannot be anticipated; one must be constantly on the alert, ready to acclaim the unexpected.

I was very ill at ease with people in social situations, and I realized that if I photographed I wouldn't have to chat.

Photography came as a substitute. I was painfully shy and found talking to people difficult; a camera in hand gave me a function, a reason to be somewhere, a witness, but not an actor.

A photograph is not necessarily a lie, but it isn't the truth either. It's more like a fleeting, subjective impression.

I think I was shy as a young woman and realized that photography was an ideal way of expressing myself, of telling people what was going on without having to talk.

I feel concerned by what happens in the world.... I don't want to merely document; I want to know why a certain thing disturbs or attracts me and how a situation can affect the person involved.

When you mature in your relationship with God you realize how suffering and patience are like eating your spiritual vegetables.

Maybe before you die, it's your ghosts you see.

In today's society, Christians have a bad rap for things like holding picketing signs, screaming mantras of hate, and bombing abortion clinics. Somehow, I don't think that's showing love.

Here was the opportunity to free herself from all those identical days and nights. pg 30

Love did not overcome everything. Love did not always endure. All you had could be taken away, love could be the last thing you had, and then love could be taken too.

I'm not worried about repeating myself - I'm more worried that I'd just get bored.

We do not want the peace of slaves nor the peace of the grave.

Life is the greatest experiment. Each of us is an experiment of one-observer and subject-making choices, living with them, recording the effects.

You don't have to be anybody... because I would know, being somebody doesn't make you anybody anyway.

That which you do not wish for yourself, do not impose on others.