San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities

Miss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display, eliciting from her awed spectators an open-mouthed chorus of ohs and ahs.

A technical failure that shows some attempt at aesthetic expression is of infinitely more value than uninspired success.

[He stared into the camera] like some sort of an animal gazing from across the back of its sty. (On Winston Churchill)

You can't teach people photography, they've got to learn how to do it the best way possible for them. They can learn from looking at pictures taken by well-known people, but they don't really get intimate with the medium until they've made a few bad shots!

More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.

The truly fashionable are beyond fashion.