The future projects light, the past only clouds

To create, one must first question everything.

A house is not a machine to live in. It is the shell of man, his extension, his release, his spiritual emanation.

We must ask nothing of artists but to be of their own time.

He'd say most kids were made of sugar and spice, but his Kylee was made of pancakes.

The proud hate pride - in others.

An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe.

Affliction is the good man's shining scene; prosperity conceals his brightest ray; as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.

You can measure distance by time. 'How far away is it?' 'Oh about 20 minutes.' But it doesn't work the other way. 'When do you get off work?' 'Around 3 miles.'

... deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.

Faces in the everyday impress us as hives of subtlety. That impression must be sharpened in photography, which discloses only a microsecond of the face's behaviour, immersed in a social process.

Are you experiencing restlessness? Stay! Are fear and loathing out of control? Stay! Aching knees and throbbing back? Stay! What's for lunch? Stay! I can't stand this another minute! Stay!

[B]eyond poverty, beyond the point that the material needs are reasonably satisfied, only from within is peace.