You have a 45mm automatic pistol on your lap, and I have a 35mm camera on my lap, and my weapon is just as powerful as yours. (To Black Panther militant Eldridge Cleaver)

I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty.

The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really - the important people are the people he photographs.

The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.

If a man can reach the latter days of his life with his soul intact, he has mastered life.

I have never known anyone important enough to consume me in anger beyond a few hours. Better to depart their existence before they poison your own.

But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived.