Photography is the first art wherein the tool does most of the work.

I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.

Baseball is meant to be fun, and not all the solemn money-men in fur-collared greatcoats, not all the scruffy media cameramen and sour-faced reporters that crowd around the dugouts can quite smother the exhilarating spaciousness and grace of this impudently relaxed sport, a game of innumerable potential redemptions and curious disappointments.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.

For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do - they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.