War makes its own morals.

A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share.

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?

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.

The very secret of life for mewas to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility. I had picked a life that dealt with excitement, tragedy, mass calamities, human triumphs and suffering. To throw my whole self into recording and attempting to understand these things, I needed an inner serenity as a kind of balance.

Life is beating against the school windows. You must quickly open the doors and go out to learn that no door must be locked against you.

If you banish fear, nothing terribly bad can happen to you.