In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it.

Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.

...but with his mother there's no question of liking him they're not even in a way separate people he began in her stomach and if she gave him life she can take it away and if he feels that withdrawal it will be the grave itself.

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

Green grass, green grandstands, green concession stalls, green paper cups, green folding chairs and visors for sale, green and white ropes, green-topped Georgia pines. If justice were poetic, Hubert Green would win it every year.

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