What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

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.

Fettered feet in the presence of friends is better than living in a garden with strangers.

Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.

i like your embraces because the vertigo smells like the sun.

I wish I knew the good of wishing.

Death is a fearful thing.

There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy.

I search but never find, hurt but never cry

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

That’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end.

I think it’s fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it.