I could never bear to be buried with people to whom I had not been introduced.

The only thing that gets in the way of a really good photograph, is the camera

I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better.

The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin's bullet. Or it can be the lotion of the heart.

A photographer without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields.

I like there to be a joke in practically every photo I take. Nobody has the right to make photography boring.

We humans progressively exterminate every support mechanism. The earth progressively degenerates toward a form of quadriplegia, completely impotent to protect all it sustains.

I believe that the more time we spend choosing to run the deep inner-peace circuitry of our right hemispheres, the more peace we will project into the world, and the more peaceful our planet will be.

You do hear some strange rumours floating around. One I've heard is that I'm allergic to metal.

Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?

One of my earliest memories as a reader - I don't know how old I was, quite young - was a poem of his, called "Fog," and I remember the first verse, "The fog comes / on little cat feet".

If you get the objectives right, a lieutenant can write the strategy.

We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual.

Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense.

A 45-year old looks a lot like a 25-year old who's been out all night. And feels just as good about having survived the experience.

Suffering dispels the illusion that we have the strength and competence to rule our own lives and save ourselves.