The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore - she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls. I thought, "That's who I should grow up to be." It's odd, because it was her physical image that I wanted; I had no idea what it was like actually to be her. In those days, we weren't bombarded by images the way we are now, and the ones we did have were more vivid in people's minds.

My mother would only let us go to the musicals.

People put barriers up in your path, and one of those barriers is age. They tell you, "You're too old. You don't photograph so well anymore." I know I don't photograph so well anymore, so what can I do? I can do something different, where it doesn't matter as much how I look.

Total contentment is only for cows.

Just because people don't meet you doesn't mean they're not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.

I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I'm even sanguine about that.

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.