The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.

Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

The language we use is extremely powerful. It is the frame through which we perceive and describe ourselves and our picture of the world.

It may not be important what you say, but it is very important who you are.

There was no denying the fact that the death of sugarcane was sounding the knell for something else in the country. What can we call it?

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

You know that sadness and rage you feel about your money? That's the way some of us feel about people.

The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification - framing the debate in terms which ignore the real issues.

We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.

Progress is the realization of utopia.

I love the Asian countries.