The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream.

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.

Obsessions are the only things that matter.

It's hard to be stuck with people that you love, when nobody trusts

You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around.

People search for love as if it were a city lost beneath the desert dunes, where pleasure is the law, the streets are lined with brocade cushions, and the sun never sets.

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

If you run into trouble doing what's expected, people sympathize with you, while if you try something else and flop everyone says, You see?

Some words were like that. Whole lives attached to them. Ghosts and lives and ecstasy and sorrow.

I stand astonished at my own moderation

When I'm pushing myself, testing myself, that's when I'm happiest. That's when the rewards are greatest.