I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.

Life is a state of mind.

Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them.

In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul.

Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.

The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.

Like nature, our economic system remains, in the long run, stable and rational...We welcome the inevitable seasons of our economy! How foolish of us.

Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.

I've been to 57 states.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

What doesn't kill us will only make us stronger.

In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.

Reflection in the mirror makes reality look at you

Grandiosity lessens as work proceeds.

If you want to pray better, you have to pray more.

Having a nightclub in your house really helps for having a party, because then you don't need to go out.

The magnificently humble. The enormously small. The meaningfully ridiculous. Robert Walser's work often reads like a dazzling answer to the question, How immense can modesty be?

We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own.