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

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

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

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?

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

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.