An object, after all, is what makes infinity private.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out which is worse; the dark inside, or the darkness out.

Geography blended with time equals destiny.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

I am an owl, bird of the night. I see everything. I know everything.

Following the prophet is always right!

Look to the end; and resolve to make the service of Christ the first object in what remains of life, without indifference to the opinion of your fellow men, but also without fear of it.

I've been on the road since 1967.

Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and in control throughout.

My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history.

There is no soul that does not respond to love, for the soul of man is a guest that has gone hungry these centuries back.

You trouble me so, Rand al'Thor. Light, sometimes I think the Creator made you just to trouble me.

He had an opinion of himself, I think, that was too high for his own good. Or maybe it was the reverse. Maybe it was a low opinion that he kept trying to erase.