Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.

You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.

I think the 50mm lens is an extremely good discipline lens; it requires you to see in a more refined way, not just tighter.

I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges.

Photography is a way of introducing people to other people.

What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake...spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture.

You have to care. You can't do good work if you don't care. That's not necessarily a strength, but it gives you strength.

In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color.

All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse.

By nature, it's impossible to describe enlightenment! How do you plan on sharing your enlightenment? Hahaha, that's impossible. Wake up! That'll be the end of the world if you ever succeed!

Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.

You're not good for me when you're not mine.

Stop them damn pictures! I don’t care what the papers write about me. My constituents can’t read. But, damn it, they can see the pictures!

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.

[Social Security ] is not in crisis at this stage. Leave Social Security alone. We have a lot of other places we can look that is in crisis. But Social Security is not.

I don't think I'm going to get so mature that I lose touch with the whatever wounded part of myself that feels the need to be funny. I'm already old enough that I realize that's not going to happen.

I have a handful of people that I have dated that I don't follow, but I will go and see what they are up to.

If you have enough fantasies, you're ready, in the event that something happens.

When orders are consistently trustworthy and observed, the relationship of a commander with his troops is satisfactory.