Emotion may be expressed, or the utter lack of it may be expressed, but the only important fact is that of expression.

Thoughts and emotions cannot be photographed, despite the protestations of some mystically minded portraitists. Physical fact is ultimately the sole pictorial material.

Photography, like any other art, is a form of communication. The artist is not blowing bubbles for his own gratification, but is speaking a language, is telling somebody something.

Nature is an unpleasing, stupid, lumpy, blowsy wench.

(...) “to have a hairy heart” has passed into everyday wizarding language to describe a cold or unfeeling witch or wizard.

Are you satisfied with you? Great! Are not you? Let's start in the mirror...

This is a love story. I never knew there were so many kinds of love or that love could make people do so many different things.I never knew there were so many different ways to say goodbye.

How unjust then to meet that person you love, and be kept away from them only because ones bed is made of hay, and the other, feathers.

I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.

My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in an American accent? I guess it was because a lot of the music I was listening to had American vocalists.

Industrial combination is not wrong in itself. The danger lies in taking government into partnership.

I'm not hiding from anyone. I am who I am, and I'm not perfect.

The other possibility was that there was no right thing to say, that the choice wasn't between right and wrong but between wrong, more wrong, and as wrong as you can get.

I have found that I get a better reaction from people once I am less bothered about their reaction.