History does not unfold: it piles up.

The secret to peace-of-mind is to not identify with anything other than your true self.

The only freedom we've got is not to react to anything, but to turn within and know the truth.

Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to be ruins the power to write or paint.

Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence.

...I felt that photography ought to start with and remain faithful to the appearance of the world, and in so doing record contradictions. The greatest pictures would then... find wholeness in the torn world.

I keep calling it the I-thought. It's a thought. There is no I. This gives you a clue.