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.

Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.

She seemed to belong to that pagan, primitive kingdom of birds and forests where everything was infinitely abundant, wild, blooming, and royal in its perpetual decay, death, and rebirth; illicit and clashing with the human world.

Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.

And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.

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.

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