People shout out for songs and I don't even remember writing them.
The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.
I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.
When the light is right and everything is working for me, I feel as tense as when making a difficult maneuver high on a mountain. A minute - and sometimes mere seconds - can make the difference between a superb image and a mundane one.
Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.
We mountaineers always live with the feeling that we came on the scene too late.
If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better.
The core of understanding lies in the individual mind, and until that is touched everything is uncertain and superficial. Truth cannot be perceived until we come to fully understand our potential and ourselves. After all, knowledge in the martial arts ultimately means self-knowledge.
Birds are settling down for the night, singing lullabies to their young.
Forbidden fruit tastes sweet, but its aftertaste is bitter.
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.