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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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