I learned quickly enough when to click the shutter, but what I was becoming aware of more slowly was a story-writer's truth: The thing to wait on, to reach for, is the moment in which people reveal themselves... I learned from my own pictures, one by one, and had to; for I think we are the breakers of our own hearts.

Ah, I'm a woman that's been clear around the world in my rocking chair, and I tell you we all get surprises now and then.

A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

I get a moral satisfaction out of putting things together.

A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmth from the fire and with the pity and beauty and power of her death. The thunder rolled.

[William Eggleston] sets forth what makes up our ordinary world. What is there, however strange, can be accepted without question; familiarity will be what overwhelms us.

it doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there; the point is to have a destination.