There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me.

Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.

If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.

Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.

This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.

I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better.

The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?

Why limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision?

Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.

It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error

Everything transitory is but an image.

The most important thing about the ‘next time’ is that there may not be a next time!

I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.

Valid criticism does you a favor.

Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.

These are tough and unusual times and I don't see the negative global economic situation abating anytime soon.

I can't find someone funny whom I don't like. Hitler told great jokes. I didn't find it funny at all.

Thirty, I really like you but I still have to see other people.

I am just a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy.