The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.

I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.

I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.

Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.

It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.