There had never been any more between us thanchance had brought. But perhaps that makes a greater indebtednessand binds closer than much else

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

Sometimes I used to think that one day i should wake up, and all that had been would be over. forgotten, sunk, drowned. Nothing was sure - not even memory.

That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night and morning it sets an interval again of years.

Reveal to the people and make them experience God first before you make them church members

To experience what isn't, love what is.

It is not a lack of love but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

I'm very romantic and of course I want to be in love.

For that is the power of the camera: seize the familiar and give it new meanings, a special significance by the mark of a personality.

Users think they know what they want, but you get the horseless carriage effect where you're getting asked for a faster horse.

I'm just saying, 'Hey, throw me a bone. How about a smile, cute t-shirt? Look at me.' Nothing - unless it's a turn to their friends to go, 'Hey, why is that weird guy looking at us?'

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

No bird in a cage ever speaks. What is there to say? The sky is everywhere, churning above its head, blue and endless, calling out to it. But the caged bird can't answer anything except 'I cannot'.

I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. I traded all the sunlight and the cities and the distant lands for a handful of power, for a shadow, for the dark.