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You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.

The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.

A woman is more beautiful than the world in which I live; and so I close my eyes.

Elephants are contagious.

Hope raises no dust.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.