“It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.”

We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.

Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.

I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.

Brevity – the sister of talent.

Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.

For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.

The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.

I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.

When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.

Tactics flow from a superior position

Cuz phony faggots I froze, it’s a fact, I flip fast on foes with fabulous fantastic flows.

The mountain rill Seeks with no surer flow the far bright sea, Than my unchang’d affections flow to thee.

You must flow with the will of God, in the service of God, to obtain the power of God.

Over the years, photography has been to me what a journal is to a writer – a record of things seen and experienced, moments in the flow of time, documents of significance to me, experiments in seeing.

It spills from my fingers faster than ink can flow – feelings too strong to contain, emotions that demand to be felt.

Innate must flow fully, freely, naturally; to, through, and into the educated brain to produce what education calls greatness.

The rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet… Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.