“The slice of time has become enormous in importance, and its hidden meaning is now perfectly plain, though so complex that it can hardly be written down.”

One way or another we all work for our vice.

Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one’s all right, he turns legit.

Put in hours and hours of planning, figure everything down to the last detail, then what? Burglar alarms start going off all overthe place for no sensible reason.

A gun fires of its own accord and a man is shot. And a broken-down old house no good for anything but chasing kids has to trip over us. Blind accidents. What can you do against blind accidents?

The persistent problem in photography is how to look at it.

Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.

The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.

There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.

I’m humbled and enormously grateful to be connected to [Franz] Kafka in a any way. He is one of the writers I admire. I think he has been a big influence on me.

It’s not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Edinburgh is an experience A city of enormous gifts Whose streets sing of history Whose cobbles tell tales.

Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.

Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.