Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.

To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.

You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

Look for principles and virtues that will help you grow bigger from inside.

I saw a star, I reached for it. I missed, so I accepted the sky

In baiting a mousetrap with cheese always leave room for the mouse.

A novel is not moral in the usual sense of the word. It can be called moral when it shakes us out of our stupor and makes us confront the absolutes we believe in.

George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

All nations want peace, but they want a peace that suits them.

Just because you sell lots of records it doesn't mean to say you're any good. Look at Phil Collins.

Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.

Charity never faileth.