The very concept of solid ground is a myth. The galaxy itself is adrift.

When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't.

It's not that photography recaptures the world you have been in; more that it creates a new one: photographs are like Post-It Notes reminding us of the deep architectonic forms of space and thought.

And I come to realise that all my small todays, the way I act, will lead into my tomorrows.

Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous energy, which winds up looking like bewildered joy.

Love could be fractured and serve different purposes, and that intense love could be divided, between people just as easily as between moments of time.

If time stood still, and we could choose the time, the best time, then love without pain would be all I know.

You're beautiful, but you're somewhere else. That's okay. I can handle that. But we won't continue as friends, not just now. I like you as a lover, not a friend.

Drought brings out the worst in us and it's easy to hate your fellow human beings.

Imperceptibly, more time passes when I'm not remembering our every moment together, not recreating our every conversation, re-imagining our love-making. It is immeasurably sad.

Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.

Beyond the stars you see are other stars, stars beyond stars, ' she told him, 'and all are dreams, like shoals of fish in the oceans of the night.

I lost my way in the darkness. But at dawn of a bright light, I find my path.

The American government is premised on the theory that if the individual man is to be free, his ideas, his beliefs, his ideology, his philosophy, must be placed beyond the reach of government.

Communications without intelligence is noise. Intelligence without communications is irrelevant.

It is crucial for the future of the Black liberation struggle that we remain ever mindful that ours is a shared struggle, that we are each other's fate.

That earliest shock in one's life which occurs to all of us; which first makes us think.

Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.

I was so afraid of upsetting people, and not being liked for saying something that was not to everyone's taste.

I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.

Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.