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.

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.

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.