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

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

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.

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

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.

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.)

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