” Nothing risque, nothing gained. ”

Alexander Woollcott

“I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and ugly, squalid dirty sex. Because no other civilization has driven sex into the underworld, and nudity to the W.C.”

 D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)

“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”

Harper Lee  (April 28, 1926 – February 19, 2016)

“Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.”

Robert Anton Wilson

“The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso and the second half is about photography. They said digital would kill photography because everyone can do it but they said that about the box brownie in 1885 when it came out. It makes photography interesting because everyone thinks they can take a picture.”

David Bailey […]

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more
to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace”

Roberto Bolaño

“The things you get fired for when you’re young are the same things you get lifetime achievements for when you’re old.”

Francis Ford Coppola

“It’s the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.”

L.M. Montgomery, Jane of Lantern Hill