I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.

Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film...if, later, the reality means something to someone else, so much the better.

He prefers his adventures second hand.

And to my soul mate, ” he raises his glass, “who has been with me all along, but is absent from my side.

Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.

Do not miss your children's childhood. Do not be away 200 nights a year as I was. Do not put strains on your marriage or family.

The most common and durable source of faction has been the various and unequal distribution of property.

Humans are stupid. I'm ashamed to be human.

I'm shy, but when the time comes to be wild, I'm fun-loving, adventurous, and mysterious.

travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts.

Vores's settings fit Torgove's voice like a knife's sheath; they are alert to the harmony of every poem and to every shift of tonality within.

I don't know if it's good for baseball, but it sure beats the hell out of rooming with Phil Rizzuto!