Art imitates nature as well as it can, as a pupil follows his master; thus it is a sort of grandchild of God.

Modesty is a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

If my books had been any worse I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better I should not have come.

I cannot live without books, but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do—that was one of my favorite things about it—and when I first did it, I felt perverse.