It seems to me that before the photograph can exist as art it must, by its very nature choose whether it is to be a record or a testimony.

Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.

True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.

Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.

Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.

Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.

The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.

Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result

As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring.

My favorite animal is steak.

Quite naturally, scholars assumed that Latin grammar was not merely Latin grammar, but that it was grammar itself. They borrowed it and made the most of it.

I really asked myself, “Oh, my god, how am I going to do this?” That’s what I aspire to, every time I take on a new role.

The endless newsreel clips of nuclear explosions that we saw on TV in the 1960s (were) a powerful incitement to the psychotic imagination, sanctioning *everything*.

All we can do is try, do our best. Give as much time as we have to give, one day at a time. One breath at a time

I have never worshipped at the altar of free trade, but I've always been an advocate of free trade.

If something's not mean't for you, you won't get it, simple as that.

The main motivations were to try to leverage Google's expertise with large computer systems and to try to give something back to science

Are you placing enough interesting, freakish, long shot, weirdo bets?

People do not choose a government that will bring the market within their control; instead, the market in every way conditions governments to bring the people within its control.