Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.

Making people laugh is one of the highest achievements you can have. And when you can make someone laugh and cry, alternatively, as Chaplin does - now that's the highest of all personal achievements. I don't know that I aim for it, but I recognize it as the supreme goal.

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.

I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.

You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them.

Photography is an art of observation - it's about creating something extraordinary out of the ordinary. You choose a frame and then wait until the right time for something magical to come along and fill it.

Working myself into a position of total versatility, so that I can do anything I want to do at the time I want to do it. Whether I do it or not is another question.