Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.

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.

The correct scientific response to something that is not understood must always be to look harder for the explanation, not give up and assume a supernatural cause.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

The sinner does not feel any remorse over his sins, that is because his heart is already dead

Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?

Our every thought, image or affirmation is a prayer. Therefore, if everything you think, feel, say or do is a form of prayer, then make it uplifted and exalted.

The glory that was Lincoln's never died when he was slain.

Women have decided to be people, which is a great mistake. Women were nicer than people.

It's easy to kind of say it's the elite that's putting you down. Well, it wasn't really the elite, technology will do that.

If rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans!

There is no justice, no law, and no God in heaven, only a single law which decides and supersedes all-[Jewish] settlement [of the land].