Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.

After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.

Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging in my soul.

The gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region.

I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality.

After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happiness into a happiness all can share?

Clocks and calendars do not exist to remind us of the Time we've forgotten but to regulate our relations with others and indeed all of society, and this is how we use them.

The power of things inheres in the memories they gather up inside them, and also in the vicissitudes of our imagination, and our memory--of this there is no doubt.

Believing that Sibel was saying these things to me to make me angry, I got angry. But this is not to say that the fury owed nothing to my partial awareness that she was right.

These were innocent people, so innocent that they thought poverty a crime that wealth would allow them to forget. --- from the notebooks of Celal Salik

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.

No more was seen the human form divine.

Complexity serves nothing but our ego. Be able to say what you do in a way that people can understand.

If anything is going to halt necessary investments in next generation networks it will be Congress dictating business models to companies.

All my life I've pursued the perfect red.

That's why when I talk to younger comics, and they say, 'Well I need this and this, and I need so and so,' I tell them they don't need nothing. All you need is some great idea and go shoot it.

I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-Tung.

That's right, you're not from Texas. But Texas wants you anyways.

Even at my peak, I never went too over the top.

If you don't change, reality in the end forces that change upon you.