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“A pretty woman is a Christmas tree,' my mother told me in the airport. This fella is hanging things on my branches as his gaze sweeps from my face all the way down my body to my hips and then back to my face. Ideas fly from his widened eyes and land on me like teeny, decorative burdens. He is giving me shyness, maybe, some book smarts, and a certain yielding sweetness in bed. The oil-slick eyes get me, and I find myself hanging a few ornaments myself, giving him deft hands and a sense of humor.”
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“Where I'm from, people aren't quick. A girl once asked her mum, 'Can I have a Cadbury's Creme Egg?' The mum said, 'No, you can't Danielle, I've already told you, darling - bird flu!'”
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“Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.”
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“War is all and king of all”
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“Dry creek glimpsed by lightning”
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“If you want to be a photographer, particularly a photojournalist , you want to learn about the world. You want to learn about yourself. And you want to find things that you genuinely care about, because that will be the source of your greatest work.”
Source : "Iconic Photographer Steve McCurry Talks Blogging and WordPress". Interview with Paul Gillin, www.socialmediatoday.com. December 8, 2012. 
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“We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.”
Source : Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.265, Transaction Publishers
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“When a man makes a specialty of knowing how some other fellow ought to spend his money, he usually thinks in millions and works for hundreds.”
