New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it - once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.

Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.

It is possible, even probable, to be told a truth about a place, to accept it, to know it and at the same time not to know anything about it.

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

The camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons, particularly to people who have been in warfare, who have been bombed and shelled for at the back of a bombing run is invariably a photograph. In the back of ruined towns, and cities, and factories, there is aerial mapping, or spy mapping, usually with a camera. Therefore the camera is a feared instrument, and a man with a camera is suspected and watched wherever he goes... In the minds of most people today the camera is the forerunner of destruction, and it is suspected, and rightly so.

Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes it'll on'y be one.

When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.