in regards to a request to use his pictures for a work on the history of street photography...
"There's no such thing as street photography and even if there were, it isn't what I do...I photograph animals. That's it! If you want to do a history of zoo photography, I'll participate."
"...who we are and what we feel and what is to become of us just doesn't matter. Our aspirations and successes have become cheap and petty. I read the newspapers, the columnists, some books, I look at the magazines. They all deal in illusions and fantasies. I can only conclude that we have lost ourselves, and that the bomb may finish the job permanently, and it doesn't matter, we have not loved life."