If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.

Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

Odessans' worst fear is change, because what if we make a change and our situation gets worse?

Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

Get to know who you are not, because when you know your ego the Truth of who you are will also become clear.

I'm the bionic woman. I have a very strong constitution, and I take excruciatingly good care of myself.

Praise is so powerful that it opens the eyes of people who don't want to see.

I depend on my family and friends a lot. I have a group of people I'm always honest and current with. I try to get through pain and not go around it, it always ends sooner that way.

Every decorative piece in this house is my feeling, my choice.

If a murder is committed privately it is considered a crime. But if it happens with the authority of the state, they call it courage.

Rescuing dogs is looked upon as a noble, trendy pursuit. But wouldn't rescuing a man from a homeless shelter be, in fact, more humane?

Why are infectious disease doctors the best ones to date? They are the most cultured and sensitive.