I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn’t have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me.

If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret.

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

I think if I ever get satisfied, I’ll have to stop. It’s the frustration that drives you.

If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

I didn't want to be a woman photographer. That would limit me. I wanted to be a photographer who was a woman, with all the world open to my camera.

What do you hang on the walls of your mind?

I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.

Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.

It's the hardest thing in the world to take the mundane and try to show how special it is.

Marty, my mother used to say "Never get greedy with God." I think what she meant was "Don't dare ask for more if you already have what you need."

The spaces between stars are where the work of the universe is done.

She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to

Sometimes feeling and thinking are one and the same.

I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves.

I didn't know a damned thing about mental illness and neither did anyone around me.

If the bubbles contain a misconception, as they always do, then it can't be maintained forever.

Every human life had its pattern that had to be worked out slowly to its ultimate conclusion.

It's difficult to see how it's possible to become immensely valuable by singing what are the most hideous songs.

Acting is in everything but the words.