A man who gets few letters does not open one lightly.

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.

He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.

Pictures... are also opinions... [they] set down what the camera operator sees and he sees what he wants to see and what he loves and hates and pities and is proud of.

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.