We should not feel separate from nature, we are a part of it. We need to cover our footprints.

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.

They sat in silence on the windowsill, their hands locked across the distance between them.

Love is written by the soul.

Like they say, the game is chess, it damn sure ain't checkers. Every move I make is so that I can conquer and destroy.

I'm always angry about the death of people who are still alive, their eyes are opened, yet they can't see anything...the spell of ignorance

The tendency of life is not the preservation of the species, but solely the preservation of each individual organism, as long as it is in existence at all, and is able to carry on its life processes.

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it.

I have had death threats from people with fixations.

Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furnish grist for the mathematical mill that is the physicist's principal tool.

Anton brings the camera. I'll bring a tuba, wear black, not shave, and take us to a burned-down Chinese restaurant. (On being photographed by his longtime photo collaborator Anton Corbijn)