Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.

For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.

I have no axe to grind; only my thoughts to burnish.

Photography at first was asked to do nothing but embalm our best smiles for the benefit of our friends and our best clothes for the amusement of posterity. Neither thing lasts, and photography came as a welcome salve to keep those precious, if slightly ridiculous, things a little longer in the world.

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.