What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.

Themes recur again and again in my work.

If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret.

I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.

What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion.

It doesn’t matter if you use a box camera or a Leica, the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing. What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing. To have them realize without saying so, that it was up to them to give me whatever they wanted to give me . . . if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.