You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.

I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.

The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.

I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.

My way of joking is to tell the truth