Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a better memory than human beings.

The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.

It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

Even if surrounded with explanations, Auschwitz can never be grasped.

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

And when the sun goes down and the mood comes upon me, I'll watch the play of the colors on the water, yield to the fleetly dissolving images, and turn into pure feeling, all soft and nice.

Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises.

How easily the routine of sin establishes itself.

An empty bus hurtles through the starry night Perhaps the driver is singing and happy because he sings.

Who can deny that the environment has been destroyed?

On sorrow floats laughter.

Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

It wasn't supposed to happen like this. I was supposed to free him. I was supposed to save him. I was supposed to save everyone.

Can an absence of action be construed as a negative action?

The moment when kite becomes free, it will fall down!

Golf is like a love affair: if you don't take it seriously it's no fun if you do take it seriously it breaks your heart.

What I'm going for with the string arrangements for my Antarctic symphony is a pun here.

What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.

From the economy to national security to government ethics, the Republican nominee promised once-in-a-lifetime change if he is elected Nov. 8.

The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. All you can do is circle around and say it's somewhere in there.

I'm more private than people realize. I'm not that easy to get to know.