The photographer can arrange his picture just as the painter does, only sometimes he must go about it in a different way.

A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself.

The greatest tool at our command is the very thing that is photography. Light. Light is our paintbrush and it is a most willing tool in the hands of the one who studies it with a sufficient care.

Much earnest philosphical thought is born of the life which springs from close association with nature.

The romance of the old West vanished so fast and so few ever did anything with it. Does it make you realize the importance of Art and how the main knowledge of history is through Art alone?

Light is one of the most important factors in photography.

I live a lonely photographic life here in Santa Fe. I do see Eliot Porter occasionally, and Ansel storms through every so often, otherwise I plug along in my old fashioned way.

It's too bad patient-centered care is not rocket science, because if it was, we would be really good at it.

Be peaceful like a mountain. Be loving like a flower. Be wonderous like thunder.

Quality not quantity is my measure.

I have always gotten a thrill, a kick, from learning new things.

When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally.

Everything starts from something but something would be nothing if your heart didn't dream with me.

Agendas in general don't work. The agenda is a thing that is perpetually destroyed. But through that destruction, something really interesting comes up.

America is a great country. I've been in the south, in the center and in the north. I like it. Americans are very good people. There's just too much air-conditioning.

I don't want to go to Peru. "How do you know? You've never been there." I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there.

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.