I don't resent anything.

When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.

You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America.

My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.

When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.

I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.

I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.

I hate big models.

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.

Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.

A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?

I don't resent anything.

I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.

I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.

I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.

When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.

I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.

Get it out of your historic head.

Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know.

I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.

It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

I don't know what love means.

Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.

Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.

The thing thats fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike.

The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.

Memory in Greek mythology is the mother of the muses and it is so for me. Both personal and societal memory move me strongly and that is one of the sources of my writing

At school I was very shy. I wasn't funny really.

23andme is very independent and committed to focusing on transparency.

I don't like being lied to.

A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

Faith in God engenders a love for the Sabbath; faith in the Sabbath engenders a love for God. A sacred Sabbath truly is a delight.

As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, 'If I was gay, I'd be with him' - you know?

Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.

I always feel a responsibility to the people I write about. I feel obligated to portray them in the way they feel is proper.

The emotional magnets beneath home and workplace are in the process of being reversed. Work has become a form of 'home' and home has become 'work.'

No one is accountable anymore for anything. No one did anything wrong. Well, you're to blame. That's to blame. This is to blame.

They cannot make it say what they want it to say. And this is the beginning and the end of the case for retaining the old language: If the churches give it up, who will remember how to say what is said?

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.

I love science fiction, and one of the things I love about it is that it's so very different. You can read stuff that's just fast-paced adventure, and the characters are cardboard, but who cares, because they're heroes, and we love it. And you can read stuff that's really deep character, and everything in between.

Keep your heels head and standards high.

My mother always said don't marry for money, divorce for money.