Light is one of the most important factors in photography.

A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself.

The greatest tool at our command is the very thing that is photography. Light. Light is our paintbrush and it is a most willing tool in the hands of the one who studies it with a sufficient care.

Much earnest philosphical thought is born of the life which springs from close association with nature.

The romance of the old West vanished so fast and so few ever did anything with it. Does it make you realize the importance of Art and how the main knowledge of history is through Art alone?

The photographer can arrange his picture just as the painter does, only sometimes he must go about it in a different way.

I live a lonely photographic life here in Santa Fe. I do see Eliot Porter occasionally, and Ansel storms through every so often, otherwise I plug along in my old fashioned way.

It's too bad patient-centered care is not rocket science, because if it was, we would be really good at it.

a wind has blown the rain away & the sky away & all the leaves away, & the trees stand. i think i, too, have known autumn too long.

The onion is the truffle of the poor.

Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.

Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller, whose gifts are displayed on every page of this beautiful, daring, and deeply humane book.

When you're aggressive behind the plate, calling a game, that's when you're at your best. You can't be tentative.

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.

More important than starting any startup, is getting to know a lot of potential co-founders.