Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.

A picture has been said to be something between a thing and a thought.

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

It seems to me the charm of etching is the glimmering through of the white paper even in the shadows so that almost everything sparkles or suggest sparkles.

I hope to begin a new plan... not sitting down to local matter but walking and watching.

A baited cat may grow as fierce as a lyon.

Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities.

If you have time to write a business plan, you have time to prove the model. Just sayin.

That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.

Not to be rich, not to be famous, not to be mighty, not even to be happy, but to be civilized--that was the dream of his life.

Don't wait for things to happen by luck, cause its an uncertain thing anyway.

Love and hate have a magical transforming power. They are the great soul changers. We grow through their exercise into the likeness of what we contemplate.

Strength doesn't come from what you do, strength is from who you are.

People get into stand-up comedy by and large because they're smart and they have a perspective.

I think of [my photographs] as found paintings because I don't crop them, I don't manipulate them or anything. So they're like found objects to me.

We don't build a record. We're taking a picture of it. We're not building an image; we're capturing an image.

Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.