American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away.

in a socialist country you can get rich by providing necessities, while in a capitalist country you can get rich by providing luxuries.

Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy.

... when I finish reading People, I always feel that I have just spent four days in Los Angeles. Women's Wear Daily at least makes me feel dirty; People makes me feel that I haven't read or learned or seen anything at all.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

We have lived through the era when happiness was a warm puppy, and the era when happiness was a dry martini, and now we have come to the era when happiness is 'knowing what your uterus looks like'.

Plastic surgery is one of the ways that people deal with the aging process. And I don't mean by using it as a form of denial, but as a kind of negotiation with it.