Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

There is a terrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things.

You can always be quoted.

Photographers are always imposing

Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy.