You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]

If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it.

To be able to say: I loved this person, we had a hell of a nice time together, it's over but in a way it will never be over and I do know that I for sure loved this person, to be able to say that and mean it, that's rare. That's rare and valuable.

I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)