The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.

If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.

Morality is not respectability.

We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.

It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.

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