We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.

Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

Life is hell. You don't need a heart. All that is needed is to give into the dark.The heart is only required in the unreachable heaven.

You're not alone, there is more to this I know. You can make it out, you will live to tell.

The world is terribly apt to take people at their own valuation.

The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.

I gained 80 pounds for my pregnancy so this is like my coming out party.

O to be in finland/ now that russia's here)

A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.

Birds buildbut not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.

The feeling of a direct responsibility of the individual to God is almost wholly a creation of Protestantism.

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.