Edith Wharton

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

I am happy to the spokeswoman for this French youth that tomorrow will be spearhead new hope in the shape of the National Front.

It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!