John Pomfret

Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really happen the way you want it to.

The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.

I went back to the States and started at a small newspaper in Riverside County, California, covering the police; I was making $280 a week covering the police.

In my 20 years as a photographer, covering conflicts from Bosnia to Gaza to Iraq to Afghanistan, injured civilians and soldiers have passed through my life many times.

It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.