Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.

A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.

To inspire is revealing the unpolished bits before perfection.

I go from English to Spanish, and I feel I have some cool songs.

I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.

A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.

If you don't have a way to speak to ordinary Americans, you're not in the game.

When it comes to civilian deaths, violent hostilities play no favorites.

Not even my excellent training at Juilliard prepared me for my first movie role, where I played a transsexual who falls in love with a military guy in 'Soldier's Girl.

When people say no to me, I say, "Don't say no to me. There is a waywe can work this out."

Thirst for victory leads to defeat; not tiring of defeat leads to victory.