A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice.

The universal view melts things into a blur.

There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.

Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.

Our first intuitions are the true ones.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.

Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?

Building bridges is the best defence against ignorance.

You haven't lived life to the fullest until you've found something worth dying for

When we don’t care about what our government is doing, we are also saying to the next generation that we are not interested in the possible burdens that we are passing on to them.

It's important to me to have what I photograph undergo a certain transformation - to become a thing different from what we are used to, to be another version of itself.

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

America is very decentralized in how it supports the humanities, unlike European countries where virtually everything stems from the central government.

You have success within. It's up to you to bring it out.

I have never been opposed to earmarks.

Art is there for nourishment, not explication.