The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy.

We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually.

If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history.

The present challenge to the photographer is to express inner significance through outward form.

It has been important to me, as an historian of photography, to understand photography by photographing.

Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of the place of poetry in the modern world.

Hold on to thy sacred dreams.

The self is a repeatedly reconstructed biological state.

To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance.

Martin Luther used to say temptation is the best teacher for a minister.

War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy.

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap

The war we are fighting until victory or the bitter end is in its deepest sense a war between Christ and Marx. Christ: the principle of love. Marx: the principle of hate.

Now that we're men, I changed my underwear.

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.

Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.