I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out.

Photography was my choice of weapons.

People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic reasons as any other.

I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense, of knowing how to get close to people and talk to them and get my work done.

Think in terms of images and words. They can be mighty powerful when they are fitted together properly.

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.

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life