All creation is in the art of seeing.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.

Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

Christ Jesus is full of compassion, if we come to Him, He will heal us.

A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.

A bird & a fish can fall in love, but where do they make a home?

Always remember, that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering.

Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul

Thank God you've got a sense of humor, or you'd be in trouble.

But it's hard for a chick to do comedy. It's not as open for them.

There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

One man's trash is another man's treasure is a third man's raw materials for their planet-buster earthquake machine.