I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.

It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.

If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from it.

I never wanted to be famous. I always wanted to take famous photographs.

He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity.

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.

Harshness to me is giving somebody false hopes and not following through. That's harsh. Telling some guy or some girl who've got zero talent that they have zero talent actually is a kindness.

Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.

I wanted to go to university and experience something that I felt like I'd missed. I wanted to be around bright, intelligent young people who were learning about themselves.