Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. — Susan Sontag

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. — George Bernard Shaw
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. — William Shakespeare
In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it. — Susan Sontag
Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe. — Susan Sontag
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. — Susan Sontag