I tried to get as far away from home as possible after I graduated from high school because I had a hard time being a kid.

When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, and I didn't make it. It was the first time, athletically, that I was knocked down.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time hanging them up at home.

In high school, I tried very hard to make everybody like me, which resulted in me being extremely unhappy and in a lot of pain. Therefore, the lesson I got from that was that I can't make everybody happy.

It's a little hard to believe 40-year-old men as high school students.