I'll tell you something about tough times. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find your way through.

Guys don't understand great art. They don't care that sometimes the camera has power beyond the photographer to record emotion that only the heart can see. They're threatened when the camera jumps ahead of me. Todd Kovich was pissed when I brought my Nikon to the prom, but I'd missed too many transcendent shots over the years to ever take a chance of missing one again. A prom, I told him, had a boundless supply of photogenic bozos who could be counted on to do something base.

A heart will say amazing things if it's given half a chance.

If she's really psychic," Zack said when he saw Tanisha's photo at school, "why does she need a doorbell?

Sometimes just getting up in the morning and standing at the gate can bring the gate down.

The problem with the heart is how it can have so many opposite feelings coursing through it all at the same time. It's really an inconsistent thing- appreciating something one minute and hating it the next.

Some things go too deep for words.