I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.

Get it out of your historic head.

I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.

Suppose Cartier-Bresson asked the man who jumped the puddle to do it again --- it never would have been the same. Start stealing!

When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.

The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike.