I know how to give the meaning of a word but not how to give the intention of a word.

The achievement of happiness requires not the satisfaction of our needs but the examination and transformation of those needs.

One impulse of photography, as immediate as its impulse to extend the visible, is to theatricalize its subjects. The photographer's command, Watch the birdie! is essentially a stage direction.

I don't run away from the idea of philosophy as seductive. I want the sentences to be prose but intense prose, to show that, like life, thinking is not linear.

Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.

I try to keep my voice in writing, and I think that's why I get so many complaints about how I write.

Philosophy is the education of grown-ups.

(Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.)

No amount of careful grooming seemed to erase their impression that he was actually a foul and frightening ogre. It was enough to give a fellow self-doubts.

The innocent-sounding words “Yes, it’s close enough to walk” can easily lure the unsuspecting tourist into an exhausting day-long climb, requiring supplemental oxygen, crampons, and a pickax.

Only the past is real.

A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.

My experience is the opposite.

I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.

I will no longer allow anyone to manipulate my mind and control my life in the name of love.

You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.