Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.

I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth.

You can only have a war with another country. You can't have a war with bad temper or a war against paranoids.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.

For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? To the designer of the camera? to the finger on the button? to the law of averages?

I was born a writer. When that happens, you have no choice in the matter.