... a mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'.

I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this much fun. I imagined something much less elusive, much more mundane.

You don’t have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at YOU.

I retired from everything except work.

... photographs are so loaded with information. They're remarkable. As I said, you get both the tree and the forest.

The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue.

Photographs also show the way that the camera sees. It's not just me or you or anybody else. The camera does something that is different from our own setting.

Photography is a generous medium.

The world makes up my pictures, not me.

At first, my presence in my photos was fascinating and disturbing. But as time passed and I was more a part of other ideas in my photos, I was able to add a giggle to those feelings.

If one really knew what one was doing, why do it? It seems to me if you had the answer why ask the question? The thing is there are so many questions.

It was a lesson that I would learn in time though it wasn't Hegbert who taught me.

Reciting part of a sutra with the desire to benefit others is like reciting a recipe in the hope it will prevent people from starving.

Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment.

never feel guilty about anything shame and guilt are a waste of time just do what you do-- and deal with it

I can take a phrase that's rarely heard/Flip it - now it's a daily word

Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.

The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.

I don't like to dwell on the past.

I love cameras but I find myself reluctantly taking pictures because what's past is past.