"Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death."

"The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is."

"Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself."

"Photography helps people to see."

"When I read the pilot 'for Married with Children', it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... just a self-deprecating kind of guy. He'd come home from work, and the wife would maybe say 'I ran over the dog this morning in the driveway'. And he would say 'Fine, what's for dinner?"

"We're special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here. That's not just my story. That's your story. That's our story."

"The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful - because you read. There's some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction."

"The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it."