When you do not like human beings, you cannot make good portraits.

For me, at least, studying my subjects first and knowing them personally was essential to taking a good picture.

...in the theatre the stage keeps the audience aware of the fictional nature of the action. The reader poring over a magazine, on the other hand, identifies what he sees in the photographs as real.

Those of us who have already chosen to embrace a love ethic, know that when we let our light shine, we draw to us and are drawn to other bearers of light. We are not alone.

A smile is much lighter to carry than a frown!

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in itsvalue.

Stormy husky brawling City of the Big Shoulders.

Some people fast, some people go on a cruise or visit a day spa. I get out in the woods with a rifle or a bow. That's my release.

Believe it or not, I got into the charismatic, shady, sly heart of Sedgewick Bell by watching CNN and C-SPAN.

I knelt, and with the fervor of a lip unused to the cool breath of reason, told my love.

And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.

Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.

It's really fun to listen to other people and be an accompanist.