To say a thing simply: I am my history, but the story of my life is always guarded, self-conscious. It is finally the only story we give to someone we love.

The Golden Arches of McDonald's rise, glorious across the landscape, contempo-monolithic, simple in concept as Stonehenge if we could but see it.

There's a bad odor about a man who's been betrayed.

I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the author's discreet help.

The part we play is not as we want it, but as we are made-with the genitals God gave us.

I've finally learned not to want things I cannot have.

Acceptance is the word we must substitute for dependence in dealing with the aged. Their acceptance of help, ours of their need.

None of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh.

Hindsight is common and bland as boiled potatoes.

To fear the bourgeois is bourgeois.

Wouldn't a laugh serve us better than to battle it out with our mortal souls?

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

I never had a typewriter. I never had any machines.

I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life.

The teaching of the ten thousand states of mind, particularly as one advances further, is done through transmission. This is where we differ from teaching algebra or calculus.

Whatever you do, make sure you go right to the top, because you sure as hell can't piss upwards on people.

. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.

When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion.

It actually has transcended my career at the Geographic, so that when my career there ended, I had momentum as a teacher, and a belief in photographic education at the workshop level.

would you like to hear the night i bravely fought the- no? alright

According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress.