When I look at pictures I have made, I have forgotten what I saw in front of the camera and respond only to what I am seeing in the photographs.

When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.

One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave until you have captured its essence.

I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.

All photographs are self-portraits.

One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.

At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.

Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.

If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.

Having somebody help you doesn't mean that you have failed. It just means that you're not in it alone

You don't need to wait for inspiration to write. It's easier to be inspired while writing that while not writing...

You really will be better off in life if you read a lot.

I have been recognized from Mad Men, and it’s so cool when that happens because I am so proud to be a part of the show.

Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.

If I had a mind to rent pigs, I'd be mighty upset. A man that likes to rent pigs won't be stopped.

I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation.

Make sure a certain percentage of the people that you're hiring are generalists so that you can be, kind of reconfigured in the workforce pretty easily.

I learned to swing on monkey bars over asphalt. I learned that if you fall, it hurts, so you try not to fall. But it's still worth swinging.

James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] ... an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no man's land.