For a photographer, the first 70 years are a bit difficult, but after that things get better.

If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.

I don't photograph life as it is, but life as I would like it to be.

Life is short. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly.

The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.

A photographer who made a picture from a splendid moment, an accidental pose of someone or a beautiful scenery, is the finder of a treasure.

There are days when simply seeing feels like happiness itself....You feel so rich, the elation seems almost excessive and you want to share it

To suggest is to create; to describe is to destroy.

If you take photos, don't speak, don't write, don't analyze yourself, and don't answer any questions.

A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there-even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.

I prefer my hesitations, my false paths, my stammering, to a preconceived idea.

I have a billion what-ifs and no way forward.

Always ask, ‘Do you love me?’ before saying, ‘I love you.

I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself.

Nods from the Gilded pointers - Nods from the Seconds slim - Decades of Arrogance between The Dial life - And Him -

Stand-up comedy is mine: it's my entity; it's my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.

Capital exploits the labour of a few to multiply itself.

Whole scenes of your life slip away forever if you don't put them down in ink.

One should be intelligent enough to know when not to be too intellectual

I can do whatever I want, but I'm a French girl. It goes with everything.