No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Shut your eyes and see.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

I wish I had eaten more rice cakes.

I was so shy and so quiet, and the only time I had my own voice and I could really connect with people was when I was singing or on stage.

There's a power that brings us to things, and there's a power that lets us move away from things, from people, places, experiences. And what you learn to do in metaphysics is accept.

Without peace there can be no prosperity for any people, rich or poor. And yet, there can be no peace without erasing the harshness of the growing contrast between the rich and the poor.

I win on my merits; my opponents win by cheating.

Parks and gardens are the quintessential intimate landscapes. People use them all the time, leaving their energy and memories behind. It's what's left behind that I like to photograph.

It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them.