It is always painful fo part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.

Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.

Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.

The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.

If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.