The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another. There is something demoralizing about going back to a place to retake pictures. You can no longer see your subjects in a fresh eye; you keep comparing them with the pictures you hold in your memory. [The] world was full of discoveries waiting to be made...(as a photographer) I could share the things I saw and learned...you would react to something all others might walk by.

Usually I object when someone makes over-much of men's work versus women's work, for I think it is the excellence of the results which counts.

Life wanted faces that would express what we wanted to tell. Not just the unusual or striking face, but the face that would speak out the message from the printed page. I am always looking for some typical person or face that will tie the picture essay together in a human way.

War makes its own morals.

I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight.

A burning purpose attracts others who are drawn along with it and help fulfill it.

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