“Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.”

A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.

Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.

Art is a form of consciousness.

Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.

One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.

Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.

It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.

Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.

It is not the position, but the disposition.

A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.

All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.

I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.

When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.

I was once told that I could speak any dream into existence and I haven’t been able to shut up ever since.

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.

You are valuable because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done – but simply because you are.

The truth is, I have always felt a little off-balance. Maybe each part of me exists in a  separate world.

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.

In France, everybody realized that God exists, and that he is back in the French international team. God is back, there is little left to say.

I remember thinking how often we look, but never see … we listen, but never hear … we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive.