The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.

If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.

I don't photograph life as it is, but life as I would like it to be.

Life is short. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly.

A photographer who made a picture from a splendid moment, an accidental pose of someone or a beautiful scenery, is the finder of a treasure.

For a photographer, the first 70 years are a bit difficult, but after that things get better.

There are days when simply seeing feels like happiness itself....You feel so rich, the elation seems almost excessive and you want to share it

To suggest is to create; to describe is to destroy.

If you take photos, don't speak, don't write, don't analyze yourself, and don't answer any questions.

A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there-even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.

I prefer my hesitations, my false paths, my stammering, to a preconceived idea.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

Everybody acts like the future is so far away, when really every moment that passes is the future.

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

We don't want to focus on the trees (or their leaves) at the expense of the forest.

The dead have nothing except the memory they've left.

It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.

The more I've traveled to war zones, the more I'm convinced that the impact and the effects are way beyond anything we can even begin to imagine.

Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.

[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth.

I haven't been abroad in so long that I almost speak English without an accent now.