Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.

What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.

All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist

Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real.

No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.

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