The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose in the streets we dare not until our streets become safe places for children, which, to our utter shame, they are not at present, though they can hardly be worse than some homes and some schools.

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

Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.

I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time.... What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.

A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.