When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave until you have captured its essence.

When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.

One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.

All photographs are self-portraits.

One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.

At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.

Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.

If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.

There's no particular class of photograph that I think is any better than any other class. I'm always and forever looking for the image that has spirit! I don't give a damn how it got made.

I wish for adventure.I wish to matter.I wish for a home.

Vampires were myths, childhood stories– as were werewolves, mermaids and dragons. I believed none of it.

There was a charm in being reborn into the world when one was old enough to appreciate it.

I want to create an economy where minimum wage is a very brief stepping stone to higher-paying jobs so people can realize their dreams.

History may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word.

Everything isn't subjective. Reality also matters. Truth matters. It is still a word with meaning.

I can't even drive a car. I don't have a driver's license. I have a rented apartment in New York. That's it. When I travel, I have almost all of my possessions with me. That's how little I own.

... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.

But they're already singing our praises!" "They are Americans. They toot their horns for anything.

How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand things of which we have no practical knowledge at all.