[The camera] may be said to make a picture of whatever it sees, the object glass is the eye of the instrument - the sensitive paper may be compared to the retina.

Photography was the first available demonstration that light could indeed exert an action sufficient to cause changes in material bodies.

I do not claim to have perfected an art but to have commenced one, the limits of which it is not possible at present exactly to ascertain.

In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases

Cleaning the wound is often more painfulthan the cut itself.

There need not be a purpose to a person's death, other than that they have lived the length of their days on this Earth and now begin the longer part of their existence.

Controlling people do not like to be controlled. Controlling people do not like to have their agendas obstructed.

To measure a man's happiness only by what he gets, and not also by what he expects to get, is as futile as to try and express a fraction which shall have a numerator but no denominator.

I am an inclusive lover, but I only do care about the virgins.

Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'

The popular choice, by more than 2 million votes, is a completely qualified candidate for president.

True love for whatever you are doing is the answer to everything.

You don't have to tell anybody a damn thing you don't want to.