[Nabokov's] language is made visible . . . like a veil or transparent curtain. You cannot help seeing the curtain as you peek into the intimate rooms behind.

In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.

Life is a state of mind.

Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them.

In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul.

Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.

The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.

Like nature, our economic system remains, in the long run, stable and rational...We welcome the inevitable seasons of our economy! How foolish of us.

Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.

Your followers are interested in going where you have gone before. Take them where you have been and let them know what took you there. They’ll learn by your example.

It is sometimes hard to be a family.

It takes great courage and determination, to keep looking for light in all the darkness of life.

We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.

The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.

I have spent myself on all kinds of things ... I have advanced much politically but I have written little and moreover have written it badly.

Every single thing you've been through in your life has had a purpose.

Il faut e pater le bourgeois. One must astound the bourgeois.

And I think to myself what a wonderful world. Oh, yeah.

Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one.