No arbitrary regulation, no act of the legislature, can add anything to the capital of the country; it can only force it into artificial channels.

Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank.

I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.

Despise your weakness, not yourself.

Survivors of the red pen can overcome the blank paper…

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.

A thug only understands you when you speak his language

To teach consequential photography, don't bother with Photoshop or f-stops. Create a craving for images.

It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life... what is a life but a history of events badly remembered?

It's frightening to admit but if I lay off the lin it'a amazing how my love handles deplete. But is life without gin worth living?

My theory has always been that everyone in show business is there because they were deprived of some attention as a child.

I think everybody realizes some things went wrong in the Middle East and that most of the terrorism is emanating from that area.