What is good is also divine. Queer as it sounds, that sums up my ethics. Only something supernatural can express the Supernatural.

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.

Perhaps what is inexpressible (what I find mysterious and am not able to express) is the background against which whatever I could express has its meaning.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

A picture of a complete apple tree, however accurate, is in a certain sense much less like the tree itself than is a little daisy.

Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe.

Talent is a spring from which fresh water is constantly flowing. But this spring loses its value if it is not used in the right way.

Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened & will happen to the human soul, but a description of something that actually takes place in human life.

I had a dream about you. We were married and I walked into the room to see you in my new black dress and high heels and I said "That's not what I meant when I said I bought them for you".

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

I like the fact that I have good old-fashioned British teeth with a big gap.

For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom.

All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

I believe the best social program is a job.

You can't jump to vegan if you're not. Some people are absolute. Some people are able to be gradual.

Do not speak unless you can improve on silence, said a Buddhist sage.

The thing I've always been most nerdy about is technology, in general.