The Genius Of Our Country

Write: Write Letters. Keep Journals. Besides Your Children, There Is No Surer Way Of Achieving Immortality.

I Treat The Photograph As A Work Of Great Complexity In Which You Can Find Drama. Add To That A Careful Composition Of Landscapes, Live Photography, The Right Music And Interviews With People, And It Becomes A Style.

The Only Art Form That Americans Have Created That's Recognized Around The World Is Jazz Music Born In A Community That Had The Peculiar Experience Of Being Unfree In A Free Land.

Good History Is A Question Of Survival. Without Any Past, We Will Deprive Ourselves Of The Defining Impression Of Our Being.

I Subscribe To William Faulkner's' View That History Is Not Just About What We Were Before But Who We Are Now.