The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.

Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject.

A kind of golden hour one remembers for a life time... Everything was touched with magic.

"Utter truth is essential, and that is what stirs me when I look through the camera."

I'm afraid my closely guarded solitude causes some hurt feelings now and then. But how to explain, without wounding someone, that you want to be wholly in the world you are writing about, that it would take two days to get the visitor's voice out of the house so that you could listen to your own characters again?

My idea of gardening is to discover something wild in my wood and weed around it with the utmost care until it has a chance to grow and spread.

You are responsible for what you have done and the people whom you have influenced.