John Gould

A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.

I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading.

Our great American writers were all newspaper people.

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

When I see something that I think isn't right, I think I have some kind of, for right or wrong, an obligation to fix it.

It's a terrifying thing to be perhaps 16 or 17 and feel like you are a failure and a has-been.