All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.

Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.

It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.

Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.