Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths.

Still photographs are the most powerful weapons in the world. Words and pictures have a continuing struggle for primacy. In my mind, a person can write the best story in the world; but a photograph is absolute.

All that a Pulitzer really does is give the obit writers something to put between the commas after your name.

The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera.

I was getting money for showing one man killing another. Two lives were destroyed and I was getting paid for it. (On his 1968 photograph of the summary street corner execution of prisoner Nguyen Van Lem by South Vietnam's police chief, Lt. Col. Nguyen Ngoc Loan.)

Fear not a thousand accusing fingers, if you are right.

If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that's a good picture.