Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.

The popular culture says . . . Do what you do, your life is predestined, like the installment plan on your house. There's not much you can do about it. Make your payments, live it, get sick, die, don't make any trouble. It is the Master Charge of destiny. Try to get your high credit rating.

Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States.

There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.

I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all.

Chance was to work in the garden, where he would care for plants and grasses and trees which grew there peacefully. He would be as one on them: quiet, open hearted in the sunshine and heavy when it rained.