How to measure a life's worth? The important thing, said Paloma one day, is not the fact of dying, it is what you are doing in the moment of your death.

When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black.

People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.

There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature.

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.

That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.

With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of Art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life.

The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.

When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.

It is a consolation or a misfortune that the wrong kind of people are too often correct in their prognostications of the future

I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country.

What's the function of poetry? It's to express general truths, to connect with the reader and make him think: 'Wow, I've experienced that, but you've expressed it so much better.'

I've always been a deep sleeper; because I come from such a large family - there are 10 kids - I could sleep through anything.

You treat people with respect, they tend to return the favor to the company.

As one boy said, 'I was thinking all these horrible thoughts about my parents when suddenly it hit me-if they're all that bad, how come I'm so wonderful'

We don't have all the answers. Perhaps prayer is simply a time we set aside to acknowledge that reality.

No two directors make the same film the same way.

At any given time, if you live long enough, old age catches you . . . the only choices we have in life are either the impairment of old age or early death.

I'm going to put every aspect of myself out into the world and try to convey it through photography.