If life is not a celebration, why remember it ? If life --- mine or that of my fellow man --- is not an offering to the other, what are we doing on this earth?

Dream: I look for  Lama Lodrö Kagyu  teacher friend  hearing he's ill & I'm ill, too -  I enter his room and he says "I've been trying to find you - I wanted you  to know illness is just phenomena

If you're going through hell, keep going

I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.

I like to make them wait, then I make them beg. And when I take off my clothes, then I form a third leg.

Most of the forward movements of life in general ... have been the work of essentially religiously-minded people.

Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.

I don't like being naïve about the market, and I always try to make things as great as I can. Then I hope that there's an audience that enjoys them, and that hopefully those things get protected.

Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this.

We're not meant to be parents when we're 50.

Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car.