Pictures could not be accessories to the story -- evidence -- they had to contain the story within the frame

All four of us were young and undaunted and our smiles were so strong that it made me smile even then on the couch, with a kind of loss.

Finish Well

I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.

No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.

I set the fashion for a quater of a century. Why? Because i knew how to express my own time.

Dogs, dogs, go away, let me live another day.

I like writing about biology, not doing it.

I’ll have you know that the most delicate flowers often produce the strongest scent when crushed.

The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.

In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration.