Some objects and events may be photographed, others, if one is to render their true quality, should be painted or set to music, since their essence is more faithfully reproduced through imagination than by the journalistic report.

I always felt that the boiled potato, not the tudor rose, should be the national emblem.

everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue.

The advertising agency, as it stands today, is a peculiar manifestation of American business life of the twentieth century - glossy, brash, and insecure.

Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

Like building a house, travel always costs more than you estimate.

That is what is so marvelous about Europe; the people long ago learned that space and beauty and quiet refuges in a great city, where children may play and old people sit in the sun, are of far more value to the inhabitants than real estate taxes and contractors' greed.