I suspect the fault...is in me: that I hate any job on earth, as a job and a hindrance and a semi-suicide.

The goal is the same: life itself; and the price is the same; life itself.

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

The artist's task is not to alter the world as the eye sees it into a world of aesthetic reality, but to perceive the aesthetic reality within the actual reality. (On photographs by Helen Levitt)

Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods?

Some people get where they hope to in this world. Most of us don't.

You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice.

I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or 'literary' diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive.

A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.

The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate. Isn't that true?

Things can turn out differently Apollo. That's the nice thing about being human. We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it's going to be.

Dream, Dream.

At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal.

Am I Latin? Am I American? What the hell am I? I love my culture and I'm very proud of my culture

Bravery and courage is walking into pain and knowing that something better is on the other side

I used to hate England because they ruled my country but I am happy they gave us the game of cricket, which they can't play very well, and the English language, which I can't speak very well.

Sexism - you can't be sexy and intelligent. It's not allowed.

He tipped her head up. "Don't give up. Don't leave me before you're even here.