It's good to be in love.

Photography is all about secrets... The secrets we all have and will never tell.

You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.

She didn't love him and he didn't love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness to it, a weight.

Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.

...and the distance between them, millimeters only, the space of a breath, opened up and deepened, became a cavern at whose edge he stood.

It wasn't right. He knew that, but it was like falling: once you started you couldn't stop until something stopped you.

Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.

You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.

A moment might be a thousand different things.

Music is like you touch the pulse of the world. Music is always happening, and sometimes you get to touch it for a while, and when you do you know that everything's connetcted to everything else.

People make the mistake of talking about 'natural laws.' There are no natural laws. There are only temporary habits of nature.

The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.

Play not the Peacock, looking everywhere about you, to see if you be well deck't.

Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great "literateur" of his time.

I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.

I've got a black-belt in crazy, and I know where you live.

The most stupid mistake a counter-insurgency operation can make is alienating the population. If you alienate the population, you're finished.

Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.

The more words you know the more clearly and powerfully you will think . . . and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.

If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine health, I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud you again.