...and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires

I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything.

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.

No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

For power, you know, is a fretful thing, and hath its wings always spread for flight.

As a society we should try to never inhibit another person's creativity. In people like myself, it's all we have.

Humans want to create lots of cool stuff, then they want to see other people using that stuff. A lot.

I've never gone for having a great voice, for cultivating one. I'm still not doing it now.

I would like to play Broadway!

I'm pretty sure there is no such thing as God.

In one year I travelled 450,000 miles by air.

We've had incredibly huge obstacles in our way - no tapes, no royalties, no cooperation on any level - and we sort it out.

In deep pain, people don't need logic, advice, encouragement, or even Scripture. They just need you to show up and shut up.

My work never directly addresses the literal subject matter of the photograph, but attempts to ask questions about vision itself.