“Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.”

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.

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

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.

Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

A vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

The truth is our planet’s alarm is now going off and it’s time to wake up and take action.

There is only one way to learn. It’s through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.

We know it well that none of us acting alone can achieve success.