To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance - and the body is our anchorage in the world.

We know not through our intellect but through our experience.

We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.

We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of objects, but as a permanent field or dimension of existence.

Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.

The body is our general medium for having a world.

Our own body is in the world as the heart is in the organism: it keeps the visible spectacle constantly alive, it breathes life into it and sustains it inwardly, and with it forms a system.

I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.

The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.

The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis of time.

I am not in front of my body, I am in it or rather I am it... If we can still speak of interpretation in relation to the perception of one's own body, we shall have to say that it interprets itself.

Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.

The world will know peace when the entrepreneur fully masters the art of starving the politician.

Prayer is power.

Only monsters could slay monsters.

My mother was predominately a stay-at-home Mom.

Because I'm such a tomboy, I hate showing off my body.

The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.

It was a sucker punch. But you know who gets hit by sucker punches? Suckers.

Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.

Maybe there will always be a market for the regular comic books because you can read [them] at your own pace. You can save them, collect them, [then] go back and read them again.