When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.

The eye should learn to listen before it looks.

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference.

Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference

Stop trying to make everyone happy. You're not tequila.

A woman's confidence separates the men from the boys.

Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday.

It takes at least three trees to make a row, and it needs at least three facts to make a truth.

People think they can tame the earth. How absurd! The vanity of human wishes is endless. It is more fun to dance with life.

Thirteen at a table is unlucky only, when the hostess has only twelve chops.

It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.

There are very few things I would love to do other than a life of writing, and I think being a singer-songwriter and being an anthropologist are the two other things I can imagine doing.

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.

You don't want to line up on the blocks and know you have not done everything you possibly can.