Summing Quotes

Summing up his Holocaust experiences: "The whole experience was a complete nightmare, the way they treated us, what we had to do to survive. We were less than animals. Sometimes I dream about those days. I wake up in a sweat terrified for fear I`m about to be sent away to a concentration camp. But I don`t hold a grudge because that`s a great waste of time. Yes, there`s something dark in the human soul. For the most part human beings are not very nice. That`s why when you find those who are, you cherish them."

(summing up his professional career): 30 years and 55 pictures - not more than five that were any good, or any good for me.

One always dies too soon--or too late. And yet one`s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are--your life, and nothing else.