Joe is never sure whether they're mad or just alarmingly and uncompromisingly incapable of self-delusion.

And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's what we live with.

Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men.

I love you forever. I am sorry I cannot love you now.

You need to relax and be yourself, not whoever it is you’re trying to be in your mad little head. I bloody don’t, though. I’m me and I’m good at it.

Nature intended in her design a hearty life of toil, open fires and plump old age attended by a brood of sun-touched brats.

Heaven is a warm cat and a good book.

Old age is a time of humiliations the most disagreeable of which for me is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.

The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly into the mist. And all that remains is a desert.

Earn as much money as you possibly can and as quickly as you can. The sooner you get money out of the way, the sooner you will be able to get to the rest of your problems in style.

United States military involvement in Syria has deepened since President Trump took office.

Mind is a most delicate evidence. Not a soul has seen it yet.

The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.