The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.

No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.

Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

If you wish to stand and progress as you ought, hold yourself an exile and a pilgrim on the earth.

That’s the thing about life. You don’t always get a second chance and there are no guarantees. Love is the only thing that really matters.

Beware of the danger signals that flag problems: silence secretiveness or sudden outburst.

The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment.

Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games.

A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians.

But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.

I love anybody who has convictions enough to make mistakes because only people who make mistakes get into enough trouble to be called drama, I think.

Onassis was a man who loved to walk, to walk and talk, and he was the kind of man who doesn't go to sleep at night-he talks and talks.

My father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for years this lesson had served me well.