There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 % American as 99 % an idiot. And they adore me.

Remember that I too am mortal.

In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.