It's a pity I am so impatient and careless, as any ordinary person could learn all the techniques of photography in a week. It is the democratic art, i.e. technical skill is practically eliminated - the more foolproof cameras become with focusing and exposure gadgets the better - and artistic quality depends only on choice of subject.

Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

Life is a picnic on a precipice.

There's always another story. There's more than meets the eye.

A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.