Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago.

All men are mortal, and therefore all men are losers; our profoundest loyalty goes out to the failed.

Revolution is just one crowd taking power from another.

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

A photograph presents itself not only as a visual representation, but as evidence, more convincing than a painting because of the unimpeachable mechanical means whereby it was made. We do not trust the artist's flattering hand; but we do trust film, and shadows, and light.

I remember one English teacher in the eighth grade, Florence Schrack, whose husband also taught at the high school. I thought what she said made sense, and she parsed sentences on the blackboard and gave me, I'd like to think, some sense of English grammar and that there is a grammar, that those commas serve a purpose and that a sentence has a logic, that you can break it down. I've tried not to forget those lessons, and to treat the English language with respect as a kind of intricate tool.

Affairs, ... , like everything else, ask too much.