Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race.

Realism has always been called cynicism.

A good deed never goes unpunished.

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?

To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

I would be literally patrician in the sense that the senators in ancient Rome were called conscript fathers, paters, from which comes the word patrician. So if you come from a senatorial family, you are literally patrician in that sense, but that doesn't mean that you couldn't be Billy Carter, you know, of recent memory.

Next to "I win," "I told you so" are the sweetest words.