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.

[...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered in his laboratory.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.

It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.

An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.