It's always wonderful when something altogether wrong ends right, without the help of either religion or the police.

The purpose of art is to console and amuse—myself, and, I hope, others.

Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.

Actually, the true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection.

For gypsies do not like to stay - They only come to go away.

In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines 74 lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.

I don't keep my books around... they would embarrass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them.

Only one who has known how troubled life can be, has a real appreciation of it when it is good

For gypsies do not like to stay -They only come to go away.

I will not play it safe!I want to experience the length, depth, and breadth of life. I'm not just here for the victories... I'm here for the scars.

The longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist, the more likely your success.

When we first met and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble. . . .

The best work in the world was always done by members of the aristocracy.

What does it mean with regard to tactics, this fact that the proletariat of Western Europe stands all alone: that it has no prospect of any help whatsoever from any other class?

I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography.

My own special relationship with America began at an early age. My father, a fellow journalist, named me after Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Kitsch makes things that are pretty as representations, but ugly as art, modern artists made things that are ugly as representations but beautiful as art.

I gave my wife a twenty-five-dollar gift certificate. She used it as a down payment on a mink coat.

In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.