The feverish excitement of twenty had been something very noble, very beautiful, but it had not been love.

But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.

and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.

Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.

wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.

One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.

One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature.

Destiny is very jealous FOR TRUE LOVE

I don't know why you care. He doesn't even know you're there

Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.

In my eyes, there's no one better than Stevie Wonder. He's a top dude.

To the gods belong power, and to us the work of our hands.

If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.

Everyone is a photographer now, remember. That's the great thing about photography.

If thou continuous to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men.

I urge you to set a tough, quantitative target for adding "differentiators" as I call them, to every service you provide.

Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.