Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

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.

It is a mistake to think that moving fast is the same as actually going somewhere.

By taking systematic actions and by focusing on beauty, for sure we can change our society.

Trying to get a fast ball past Hank Aaron is like trying to get the sun past a rooster.

You're my present and my future Sadie, I will use whatever power I have to make you happy.

I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work.

Keep a little space in your heart for the improbable. You won't regret it.

Heaven has a north and a south and an east and a west. Consequently, it must be a planet.

Houllier couldn’t deal with players expressing any anger or questioning any of his decisions

Find your true self. The old question, asked in many ages, "Who am I?" Once you figure out who am I, and you know who am I, then you have that knowledge of self.

Call it crazy, or just chicken salad.