The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker... Labor is the only source of wealth.

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.

When truth is divided, errors multiply.

We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art.

The most important thing for you to do is see that in hoping to be affected by other things as fully as possible, you become more yourself.

The universe is Why, How, and What, in any order, and all at once.

All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.

The resolution of conflict in self is like the making one of opposites in art.

Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary.

The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.

The purpose of photography is to create an emotion about the world through what has been carefully seen and selected.

Existence is enough grace.

Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one

No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.

I like to think - knowing that it's an enabling fiction - of those moments as fragments from a world to come, a world where price isn't the only measure of value.

Hope was supposed to be a good thing, but it was starting to feel like every other four-letter word you're not supposed to say.

I don't have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

Every piece of music I have composed reminds me of a different time in my life.

I didn't lie, I was writing fiction with my mouth.

We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.