I was a commodity, like a hot dog. It was like hot dogs and Betty Hutton.

I don't even have many friends anymore because I backed away from them. When things went wrong for me I didn't want them to have any part of my trouble.

Some kind of fun lasts longer than others.

I don't know where it's all going to lead. I have no idea where I'm going. I would just like to be happy.

I worked out of desperation. I used to hit fast and run in hopes that people wouldn't realize that I really couldn't do anything.

I think things are going to go right for me again. I'm not old. I'm old enough, but I photograph young, thank God, and I still have a public. I still get fan mail.

Aliena's brother, Richard, sometimes reminded her of her father, with a look or a gesture, and that was when she felt a surge of affection.

Love can extend far beyond the people whom we know and it makes us a part of something much greater than ourselves.

For how long will you continue to deal with the pain that comes with the grudges in your heart?

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.

Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement.

Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.

Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?

A lot of people don't want to put that work in they just want to be famous.

I love the magic of the studio.

National honor is national property of the highest value.