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?

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

War makes its own morals.

As photographers, we live through things so swiftly. All our experience and training is focused toward snatching off the highlights... That all significant perfect moment, so essential to capture, is often highly perishable. There may be little opportunity to probe deeper.

Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open.

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.

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.