Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our hearts.

Malice remains its animating impulse.

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.

I was always trying to take art photographs, but the most interesting pictures were the snapshots. The artsy pictures were boring, always.

There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work.

Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.