When I walk with a camera, I walk from shot to shot, reading the light on a calibrated meter. When I walk without a camera, my own shutter opens, and the moment's light prints on my own silver gut. When I see this second way I am above all an unscrupulous observer.

Old memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you've destroyed it.

if you stay still, earth buries you, ready or not.

A shepherd on a hilltop who looks at a mess of stars and thinks, ‘There’s a hunter, a plow, a fish,’ is making mental connections that have as much real force in the universe as the very fires in those stars themselves.

Put yourself out of your misery.

It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.

Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you.