For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.
Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.
Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.
Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.
If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.
After bread, education is the first need of the people.
The parts that embarrass you the most are usually the most interesting poetically, are usually the most naked of all, the rawest, the goofiest, the strangest and most eccentric and at the same time, most representative, most universal. . . That was something I earned from Kerouac, which was that spontaneous writing could be embarrassing. . . The cure for that is to write the thing down which you will not publish and which you won't show people. To write secretly. . . so you can actually be free to say anything you want.
It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.