In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit.

You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.

My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach; it is not borrowed from what others are doing.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

The heart and the mind, what an enigma.